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To: thames_sider who wrote (93416)11/3/2008 3:01:39 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 541735
 
I mentioned the other categories because you asserted that it was just "GDP per capita", it isn't.

How about evaluating personal worth, personal security, feeling of community and belonging?

None of those is really subject to objective measurement. And they usually fall under the idea of "quality of life" not "standard of living".

And for the most part they aren't something where I see things in Europe as being better than in the US.