92% of Americans want to live in Sweden.

[Cannot think of a name]

Well, I mean c'mon, we started a revolution because we didn't want to pay taxes to cover the cost of protecting the colonists from all the natives they were pissing off. At least we're consistent. /oversimplification

What a glorious past.
We come to a new land.
Steal some of it.
Fight one of the most powerful empires.
In the end we win.
We make a country.
Then take more land.
Then improve our country.
Then we had a civil war.
Oh how bloody that was.
Then we fought some more wars.
Then we fought in the world wars and took advantage of the situation afterward.
Then instead of truly being an empire....we decide to be nice.
Thus we continue to have propaganda thrown at us while we are the most charitable country in the world that helps the world.Much of the donations come from the individuals whom have nothing to gain.
Such a nice wannabe empire we are.
We show individuality.
WE arent like those other powers were use to....we actually let you abuse us without getting all genocidal on you...even though we could....quite easily...

If this massive oversimplification wasn't in response to one of my own it wouldn't be so awkward for me to challenge this characterization...

[The Black Forrest]

Does old analogies work anymore in the global economy?

If the village is in the US, odds are the billionaire is busy creating jobs in cheaper countries.

Whatever. The locals need stuff, and will pay for stuff, creating both stuff, and jobs. I was a rather simplistic explanation that equality is not everything.

That's true; but there are only so many low wage part time jobs to go around.

[Intellectual Pornography]

That's true; but there are only so many low wage part time jobs to go around.

That's not true. We can farm the fucking ocean for kelp and seaweed.

[The Black Forrest]

Let them go to Sweden. More America for the real Americans.

Derp.

[Sibirsky]

Whatever. The locals need stuff, and will pay for stuff, creating both stuff, and jobs. I was a rather simplistic explanation that equality is not everything.

That's true; but there are only so many low wage part time jobs to go around.

Do you not understand the comparison? I am confused. Assuming all prices in the two villages were the same, obviously the far less equal group of people were a lot better off. 10 times, if we go by the median number, as averages tend to skew numbers to a very large degree.

[The Black Forrest]

That's true; but there are only so many low wage part time jobs to go around.

Do you not understand the comparison? I am confused. Assuming all prices in the two villages were the same, obviously the far less equal group of people were a lot better off. 10 times, if we go by the median number, as averages tend to skew numbers to a very large degree.

Oh sorry. I am battling a cold so I am a little drugged up.

Reading does help sometimes. I think I went off on a tangent.

So ignore it

[Solyhniya]

Yes, that is perfectly fine, as long as they come to that wealth through honest means, and not government redistribution.

More capitalist dogma, great.

[Sibirsky]

Do you not understand the comparison? I am confused. Assuming all prices in the two villages were the same, obviously the far less equal group of people were a lot better off. 10 times, if we go by the median number, as averages tend to skew numbers to a very large degree.

Oh sorry. I am battling a cold so I am a little drugged up.

Reading does help sometimes. I think I went off on a tangent.

So ignore it

Hey did you ever get that TG from me? Did you not respond because you didn't want to respond like I said you don't have to or did you lose it somehow?

[The Black Forrest]

Oh sorry. I am battling a cold so I am a little drugged up.

Reading does help sometimes. I think I went off on a tangent.

So ignore it

Hey did you ever get that TG from me? Did you not respond because you didn't want to respond like I said you don't have to or did you lose it somehow?

Er? Let me check. I don't always check the TGs as I get many "join this region" requests.

[Sibirsky]

Hey did you ever get that TG from me? Did you not respond because you didn't want to respond like I said you don't have to or did you lose it somehow?

Er? Let me check. I don't always check the TGs as I get many "join this region" requests.

That's what happens when you are in Lazarus or the Pacifics.

[Keronians]

This is so stupid...it doesn't even take into account actual wealth, just the distribution. Who cares about distribution? What an idiotic, misleading poll. Obviously PBS has no agenda at all. [/sarcasm] The fact that anybody gives this nonsense any credit at all should really be embarassing for all americans.

Wealth distribution is important. For political stability and a show of real wealth.

It's also beneficial for consumption and demand and supply.

[Keronians]

Er? Let me check. I don't always check the TGs as I get many "join this region" requests.

That's what happens when you are in Lazarus or the Pacifics.

Oh God, tell me about it.

Half my TGs are:

"Hey, I know you've been around some time now, but it's never too late to change regions! "

*sigh*

[Realisim]

When the top 2% controls more than half yeah there is a slight problem

As a logical thinker remove the "want to live part" and add something along the lines of "prefer the wealth distribution of"

That and 92% of Americans would have a hell of a time pointing out Sweden on a map, let alone logically coming to the conclusion that their socio-economic wealth distribution is much more level than ours.

[Robert Magoo]

That's what happens when you are in Lazarus or the Pacifics.

Oh God, tell me about it.

Half my TGs are:

"Hey, I know you've been around some time now, but it's never too late to change regions! "

*sigh*

Why not just do what they want so you don't have to be harassed anymore?

[Robert Magoo]

That and 92% of Americans would have a hell of a time pointing out Sweden on a map, let alone logically coming to the conclusion that their socio-economic wealth distribution is much more level than ours.

Ridiculous. Americans aren't that stupid. Primary education may not be as good as a lot of european countries, but it's not like the US is full of morons.

[Sibirsky]

That's what happens when you are in Lazarus or the Pacifics.

Oh God, tell me about it.

Half my TGs are:

"Hey, I know you've been around some time now, but it's never too late to change regions! "

*sigh*

Forrest is in Lazarus and you are in the Pacifics. What do you guys expect? I don;t get any TGs like that.

[Sibirsky]

That and 92% of Americans would have a hell of a time pointing out Sweden on a map, let alone logically coming to the conclusion that their socio-economic wealth distribution is much more level than ours.

Ridiculous. Americans aren't that stupid. Primary education may not be as good as a lot of european countries, but it's not like the US is full of morons.

Sweden is easy to find. It's the dick on the euro.

[Keronians]

That and 92% of Americans would have a hell of a time pointing out Sweden on a map, let alone logically coming to the conclusion that their socio-economic wealth distribution is much more level than ours.

Ridiculous. Americans aren't that stupid. Primary education may not be as good as a lot of european countries, but it's not like the US is full of morons.

This brings me back to my long rant on US education.

It's like this: the US spends the second most per pupil to obtain the 20th best results in the developed world.

What do you think is structurally wrong?

[Robert Magoo]

Ridiculous. Americans aren't that stupid. Primary education may not be as good as a lot of european countries, but it's not like the US is full of morons.

This brings me back to my long rant on US education.

It's like this: the US spends the second most per pupil to obtain the 20th best results in the developed world.

What do you think is structurally wrong?

I really don't know, to be honest. I think vouchers would help dramatically, but I'm not sure why public schools are such failures in the US. They weren't always...

[Sibirsky]

This brings me back to my long rant on US education.

It's like this: the US spends the second most per pupil to obtain the 20th best results in the developed world.

What do you think is structurally wrong?

I really don't know, to be honest. I think vouchers would help dramatically, but I'm not sure why public schools are such failures in the US. They weren't always...

This.

Also, not all public schools are failures. Some are very good. Our best public schools are better than most private schools. Of course they are "special" schools, with entrance exams and so on.

However, our regular best public schools (geographical entry) are still very, very good.

[Serrvia Terria Primmeriuss]

I don't know about the whole wealth distribution thing, but I lovz the Swedish girlz.

No offense to the Brits.

[Keronians]

I really don't know, to be honest. I think vouchers would help dramatically, but I'm not sure why public schools are such failures in the US. They weren't always...

This.

Also, not all public schools are failures. Some are very good. Our best public schools are better than most private schools. Of course they are "special" schools, with entrance exams and so on.

However, our regular best public schools (geographical entry) are still very, very good.

I'm not quite sure why vouchers aren't allowed in the US.

That, and I'm not quite sure why a child's parents can't choose the public school they want their kid to attend, rather than have to have him go to a particular one.

[The Merchant Republics]

This a rather uninspiring discovery.

Of course the majority of people in the world would prefer that the poor had a higher distribution of wealth. The question asked is literally the equivalent of "Would you prefer to have more money? Or less?" in the minds of most people. It's almost asinine to think this means anything significant.

[Robert Magoo]

Some are very good.

Of course I was generalizing. The school district that I belonged to was very good, considered among the best in the state. But I know that it doesn't represent the majority. American public schools aren't that bad, but they aren't that good either, especially considering the amount of money that goes into them.

[Realisim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmEp97yQcRQ

all I have to say