But then where hasn’t been? When I was born we were poorer than all of France, Japan, and Italy on a per capita basis and now we are not. We have broadly kept pace with US growth since the end of world war 2. We have failed to figure out strategies to close the gap with the US by growing faster but we are doing no worse.

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ycombigators 7 hours ago | parent [-]

"we are doing no worse" : is that the royal we? Because normal people absolutely are doing a lot worse over that last couple of decades.

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argsnd 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I fear “we are not the richest country in the world” is an unreasonable standard for claiming chronic mismanagement.

	▲	ycombigators 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Again with the "we". Per capita statistics are great distraction from neofeudalism. What was the per capita GDP of Wessex?