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https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/11111111111 With all parameter set to be equal, only 3 EU countries get higher position than USA, who rank 8, all major EU countries get lower scores than USA.

Probably best way is to look at this: https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-ppp.htm According to OCED a $ should be worth around 9 sek +- 0.5 the last 22 years, obviously the norminal value is much more extreme, but that is why I would avoid looking at it.

House prices seems so random in Sweden, in my area some cost like 2 years income and some many times more, although you only need 15% downpayment with interest rate have been quite low and actually repaying the mortgages have not really been much of a requirement, which is one reason why private...

I don't see why it would be particular hard to live like this family today, a rather modest house, spending probably most of their money on food, very basic technology and probably frugal with spending money on anything else than just the very basics.

There is much smaller gap, like if I convert swedish compensation numbers into american ones and assuming 2000 hours worked for both, productivity was listed as same by OCED and compare them to USA, it become like $50-60k vs like $33k at bottom 10% and like $130k vs $160k at top 10%. Difference...

Bottom 10-20% is doing poorly pretty much everywhere compared to rest of society, like that is what being at the bottom means. It is the opposite for the top, they going to do pretty well everywhere. You can see the same trend for USA and Norway in terms of poor having short life expectency and...

Too be fair I may have autism, which is something I have ordered time to get checked.

GDP is pretty bad messure of how well people of a country is actually doing.

And what way is it out of touch, majority of people are doing well in the developed countries?

There are areas and people that live like this

Probably this

If a company pay you $90k, you maybe get like $40k-$45k after all taxes +$15k in retirement investment, so $55k, cost of living maybe is like $2000-2500 per month so $24000-30000/yr, but that obviously going to depend on where you live and such. College, healthcare and such have quite trival...

OCED productivity Productivity of Sweden according to OCED is high at $74/h in year 2022

That is just salary part, keep in mind Sweden have a high hidden cost, if I put that into an employer cost caculator and use OCED PPP converter which is 8.7 sek to $ in 2022 I get 55 000 sek salary to equal a total compensation of $120 000 per year. Like if a company pay $100k for somebody in 2...

$90k or $50/h is just like top 25% compensation in countries like Sweden or USA. Like starting salary for a tech company, junior programmer, I guess the people I work with paid maybe around $70/h and I don't know how restricted stock units work but those I we will eventually get. In my area I...