• Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    total GDP = how much productive stuff can be harnessed by god emperor xi

    GDP per capita = a few people in this irrelevant wonderland have cushy lives

    • AusbildungDerAusbild [comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      Always good to have a look at stuff like Gini coefficients (which are a bad indicator, but not useless): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_L%C3%A4nder_nach_Einkommensverteilung

      How much the acknowledged income of the top 10% is higher than the lowest 10% (so 6,7 means the top 10% have nearly 7 times the income - not wealth! - of the lower 10% of incomes in terms of households of the country. Top income households are typically smaller - in terms of persons per household, not in terms of square meter per household -, so if you look at it from a per person view it will be even worse from our perspective)