http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
(oil economies are the occasional exceptions for brief periods of time)
Even the Scandanavian countries that socialists love to cite have been reforming their economies and Sweden is one example of an economy that has privatized pensions.
Not to blame them. The rankings of income per capita worldwide correlate with capitalism and freeom.
http://www.heritage.org/Index/Ranking.aspx
...but enough of my own assertions and analysis to start the debating, the question is:
WHY THE CORRELATION?
Capitalists, socialists, everyone please strike with your best shot.
An interesting exercise:
Go to their data explorer, select all countries and sort by score on Government Size. High values indicate small government size. The top ten are:
1. Burma
2. Liberia
3. Cambodja
4. Bangladesh
5. Central African Republic
6. Haiti
7. Singapore
8. Cameroon
9. Turkmenistan
10. Guatemala
Originally posted by PalynkaAnd so tiny countries signify what?
An interesting exercise:
Go to their data explorer, select all countries and sort by score on Government Size. High values indicate small government size. The top ten are:
1. Burma
2. Liberia
3. Cambodja
4. Bangladesh
5. Central African Republic
6. Haiti
7. Singapore
8. Cameroon
9. Turkmenistan
10. Guatemala
Originally posted by eljefejesusOuch!
Capitalists, socialists, everyone please strike with your best shot.
This Thread died a death and didn't hang about doing so.
I give eljefejesus currently a 4 on a scale of 1-10. If he stops taking talking pure boggle-eyedish for a moment and takes a slightly more mature view of the world and of the perceptions and experiences of his interlocutors, he could easily become a 6 or 7 almost instantly.
Originally posted by eljefejesusDoes the correlation take into account the 10% elite who own 90%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
(oil economies are the occasional exceptions for brief periods of time)
Even the Scandanavian countries that socialists love to cite have been reforming their economies and Sweden is one example of an economy that has privatized pensions.
Not to blame them. The rankings of inc ...[text shortened]...
WHY THE CORRELATION?
Capitalists, socialists, everyone please strike with your best shot.
of the wealth? If so, how would it look with these people taken out?
Originally posted by PalynkaIt's best that you do, since you avoided the correlation I pointed out by making a meaningless list of predominantly emerging countries from area like africa and south asia. What size governments did you expect them to have? That is not the same as economic freedom or capitalism.
I rest my case. 😏
I challenge you, let's look where they fall on the index of economic freedom, shall we?
Originally posted by FMFLOL, I knew you would take that quote of mine about your debating ranking of 4 personally.
Ouch!
This Thread died a death and didn't hang about doing so.
I give eljefejesus currently a 4 on a scale of 1-10. If he stops taking talking pure boggle-eyedish for a moment and takes a slightly more mature view of the world and of the perceptions and experiences of his interlocutors, he could easily become a 6 or 7 almost instantly.