freboard's comments

On: What is the richest country in 2025?

[freboard]

I would like to see this for cities. Comparing countries seems so dumb to me when you have such huge geographic and population size differences

[mellosouls → freboard]

Yes, for instance the UK would probably fare very differently if London (which can itself feel like a foreign country to non-Londoners in the UK) was removed and the country's wealth re-evaluated.

[margalabargala → mellosouls]

This is true of basically any country except very rich, tiny countries like Singapore or the UAE.

[lgvln → margalabargala]

Na. GDP pp is meaningless without accounting for inequality and civil liberties.

[margalabargala → lgvln]

Sure but we're talking about urban/rural disparities in the same country. PPP and civil liberties are generally pretty similar there.

[fragmede → lgvln]

what's the civil liberty to $ exchange rate?

[igravious → freboard]

agreed