The puzzle of Europe
Could it be that European countries care less about raising GDP at any cost, and more about making sure that wealth benefits everybody to some degree? The US has far more inequality than Europe.<p>I think you&#x27;d get very different graphs if you compared the incomes of the lower half of the population. Or even the lower 80%.<p>So to what extent is that high GDP actually benefitting the US as a whole? It&#x27;s not a game where GDP is your high score.