[Lazamataz]

I’d be delighted if all we tried to copy WAS Europe. We seem to be bound and determined to copy the Soviet Union, and toss in a little Nazi Germany for good measure.

[Sherman Logan]

P.S. I’ve always thought that this comparison of the per-capita income of Swedes in Sweden and the per-capita income of folks of Swedish ancestry in the United States is very persuasive.

Same is true of almost all ethnic groups.

Also true of education. We hear all the time about how US education is horrible compared to other countries.

We never hear that Japanese here outperform their cousins in Japan, Chinese-American outperform Chinese, German-Americans outperform Germans, etc., etc.

AFAIK the only ethnic group for which this is NOT true is the Finns, where those in Finland slightly outperform those in America.

[Graybeard58]

Standard economic theory suggests that poor nations should catch up with rich nations. This “convergence theory” actually worked for the first few decades after World War II.

I suspect that the U.S. pouring billions in aid to war ravaged Europe after the war had something to do with that.