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		_yrnr 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home GDP per capita is an almost completely meaningless metric if you don’t also include cost of living and some way of measuring the quality of goods and services it acquires for you.

cscurmudgeon 11 months ago [–]

That is not GDP per capita but average income.

Feel free to add more data.

If you adjust by living costs and look at median wages, US looks even better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

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