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SCO's new offensiveSCO's new offensivePosted Jul 24, 2003 6:06 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)In reply to: SCO's new offensive by rknop Parent article: SCO's new offensive I don't really believe that the USA has the highest standard of living for all of its citizens any more, although the true degree of personal freedom is debatable This is uncontroversial. USA is at the forefront in pure economic terms (though beat by some small rich states) but in general living-standard they are not leading. The UN Human Development Index for example, is a index based on a multitude of social and economic indicators such as income, gender inequality, access to education, poverty-level, illiteracy, life-expectancy, infant mortality, access to healthcare and so on. In 2003 USA scored 7th place. Beat by (in sequence) Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Australia, Netherlands and Belgium. Still quite good offcourse, since 7th out of 55 "highly developed" countries is still respectable. This unshakeable belief that some Americans seem to have that their country is the best possible one is quite silly though.
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SCO's new offensive Posted Jul 24, 2003 8:34 UTC (Thu) by Liefting (subscriber, #8466) [Link] That's cute...As far as I know, 3 or 4 (I'm not sure about Norway) of these countries are actually kingdoms. One has a women president, and one was started by shipping prisoners to what was then considered a mostly-empty continent. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
SCO's new offensive Posted Jul 31, 2003 13:22 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670) [Link] Norway is a kingdom.What does it make you wonder?
SCO's new offensive Posted Jul 30, 2003 4:55 UTC (Wed) by ronzone (guest, #10671) [Link] This is uncontroversial. USA is at the forefront in pure economic terms (though beat by some small rich states) but in general living-standard they are not leading.The UN Human Development Index for example, is a index based on a multitude of social and economic indicators such as income, gender inequality, access to education, poverty-level, illiteracy, life-expectancy, infant mortality, access to healthcare and so on. In 2003 USA scored 7th place. Beat by (in sequence) Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Australia, Netherlands and Belgium.
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