> Using the BLS figures for employment and the World Bank figures for dollar
> GDP, we get this for GDP per employed person in 1997:
>
> Germany $77,150
> Japan 64,564
> France 63,238
> U.S. 60,467
And all of those countries are more egalitarian than the US. So average people in those countries are better off than we are in money terms -- in the case of Germany, *way* better off. How come this never stops us from pitying them and lecturing them on how to be like us?
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com