If Sweden and Germany Became US States, They Would Be Among the Poorest States

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11 points·jesterpm··8 comments

Not quite sure where these numbers were pulled from but the median Swedish salary for men are at $40482.89/yr and women at $36687.6/yr, the median of that is 38585.24 in total. Not sure that I can trust anything from this article.

The Ludwig von Mises institute is certainly not apolitical by any stretch.

The article is just bad propaganda. I say "bad" because it relies on the reader not having spent time outside the USA. You can compare apples and oranges all day. If Sweden suffers from "poverty" than its a type of poverty that looks pretty cozy to me.

A hopefully obvious case of political propaganda disguised as science. Median income is a pretty shocking way to measure overall wealth.

Edit: A glance at the author's previous work tells the whole story https://mises.org/profile/ryan-mcmaken

There are lies, damned lies, statistics, then, there's this article.

> Now that we've accounted for the low cost of living in Mississippi, we find that Mississippi ($26,517) is no longer the state with the lowest median income in real terms. New York ($26,152) is now the state with the lowest median income due to its very high cost of living.

The amount of fuckery one must do to the data to make New York look more poor than Mississippi is mind blowing.

These numbers seem very wrong.

Sounds like they're warming up the anti-Bernie talking points machine.

The median salary in Sweden is ~$38k.

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