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0 pointsseansmccullough10y ago0 comments

That's saying 160 million Americans are better off than 4.3 million Swedes. That is the entire point.

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kethinov10y ago· 1 in thread

The relative population is not the point. Sweden's lower Gini coefficient is the point.

The fact that the bottom 160 million Americans are worse off than the bottom 4.3 million Swedes is the point.

The bottom 160 million Americans live better than billionaires did 100 years ago.

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