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Originally Posted by Weitz
With a country like Canada having very expensive social programs (health care) is that not a useful statistic?
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It might be a useful statistic.
Directly correlating GDP to quality of life without demonstrating that link or discussing how immigration affects GDP per capita and any lags that it may cause makes it less useful.
https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/
List of countries by gdp be per capita
Best quality of life
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-cou...uality-of-life
Now these aren’t definitive rankings but it really calls into question the GDP vs QOL thesis.
I’m not saying this isn’t a concern, I’m saying that article and and paper referenced were written to support an agenda rather than an analysis of what is actually happening