>Look at any other objective measurement. Percent of people living below the global poverty line adjusted for PPP. Median income, 25th percentile income.
HDI and Inequality adjusted HDI are not an objective measurement?
If you’re looking at HDI, Mississippi (the lowest scoring state in the US), would rank 25 out of 41 European countries.
I can’t find IHDI by state, but given that the US only drops a few spots between HDI and IHDI, Mississippi isn’t likely to be anywhere near the bottom.
All southern states except Mississippi rank in the top 50% of European counties by HDI btw.
>Another thing is that for years USA was in a sense donating European industry,
Sure and Europe is not at all donating to US arms industry or to US tech sector? Europe is pretty liberal about letting US dominate those domains inside the EU, without opposing that. Plus in geopolitics it simply follows the US, that's sort of been the deal.
Seems like this US leadership thinks it can both have its cake and eat it.
Tech giants have no competition in Europe and no capital to do so. In some ways, what Trump is doing is a call to arms for the EU to kick their economies into shape.
We've been stuck in 0 growth for years, the UK is in a 0 growth trap since the GFC.
HDI and Inequality adjusted HDI are not an objective measurement?