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USA GDP per capita is $57k. Luxembourg is $100k. Does that really qualify as fractional?

Your post is borderline trollish considering Luxembourg has a population of less than San Francisco. And the fractions are somewhat different with the US in much closer per GDP striking distance to the tiny city-state protectorate of Luxembourg versus the huge per capita gap between the USA and China.

Please try to post constructive comments. This is not Reddit.

The comment was constructive. You brought the attention to "GDP per capita" yourself, so pointing out the obvious problem with that metric singled out is as ad rem as it gets.

If the comment pointed out a country of comparable size (within an order of magnitude) to the US with a significantly higher GDP per capita (on a similar order to the gap between the USA and China), it would have been constructive and informative.

Imagine a discussion of average tech salaries among the tech giants and someone points out they know a company with 2 people and the average salary is $350k per person. That's irrelevant and derailing.

We should try to increase the per capita GDP in the US then.