I've gotten a lot of little tidbits from my boss that are interesting, but I just learned something that blows all that out of the water and reframes everything.
The store I work in, a convenience store/pharmacy of medium size in a spot somewhere between the suburbs and the city, pays $50k a month in rent.
Think about how much more you're charged for products than they cost to produce. Set aside the actual Capitalists in the process, they at least facilitate production. Think about how much extra money you've been spending just so that retailers can meet the demands of some company that has a piece of paper that says they own the land.
Apparently in big cities, the rent can get over $200k a month.
If Denmark was a US county, it would be the 5th largest county in the US (assuming that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_counties_in_the_United_States_by_area doesnt include Alaska) So great news, we aren't THAT tiny. Though it is extremely funny that all the big county areas in the US are just desert areas that nobody can live in anymore. No idea what their population was before the whites showed up though.
Area:
10,637 sq mi (27,550 km2)
Population (2020):
4,499
Density: 0.42/sq mi (0.16/km2)
Empty ass country
If Denmark had the same population density it would only have around 6,800 people (idk what the metric measurement for people is)
There’s a joke about imperial vs metric and the three fifths compromise in here somewhere