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A Jesuit from the Holy Roman Empire will be knocking on your door shortly with castrating clippers and will hold you down as illegal immigrant squatters occupy your home. Why do you fight progress?

“The eurozone economy grew about 6% over the past 15 years, measured in dollars, compared with 82% for the U.S., according to International Monetary Fund data. That has left the average EU country poorer per head than every US state except Idaho and Mississippi, according to a report this month by the European Centre for International Political Economy, a Brussels-based independent think tank. If the current trend continues, by 2035 the gap between economic output per capita in the US and EU will be as large as that between Japan and Ecuador today, the report said.”

https://newsletter.doomberg.com/p/judgement-day

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

“The eurozone economy grew about 6% over the past 15 years, measured in dollars, compared with 82% for the U.S., according to International Monetary Fund data. That has left the average EU country poorer per head than every US state except Idaho and Mississippi, according to a report this month by the European Centre for International Political Economy, a Brussels-based independent think tank. If the current trend continues, by 2035 the gap between economic output per capita in the US and EU will be as large as that between Japan and Ecuador today, the report said.”

https://newsletter.doomberg.com/p/judgement-day

Ah but the standard of living in the US has been declining in the recent decade compared to the Western Europen countries, no doubt about it. GDP is meaningless, debt to gdp is at least a somewhat legit measure, and the EU with all of it's corrupt Eurocrats is doing quite better than the US lately here. Zero reason to gloat, hopefully November will bring an America first govt back again. You can live well in the US but you need to be in the top 10% of earners as absolute minimum, better top 5%.

mell says

Ah but the standard of living in the US has been declining in the recent decade compared to the Western Europen countries

Not really. Energy prices are through the roof over there. And Germany is becoming a Rust Belt.