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Oh wow, that's just silly. You're talking about immegrants from about 400 years ago. They were colonialists exploiting a "virgin" land for profit. This has nothing to do with contemporary entrepreneurship, for all intent and purposes these Danish Americans are Americans.

Continue to think the US is a dreamland while the median Dane have a much higher quality of life.

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> 400 years ago

If you read the children comments, you will see a more nuanced take on those stats.

> Continue to think the US is a dreamland while the median Dane have a much higher quality of life.

I don't doubt that; the US is not optimized for the median citizen. But neither is Hacker News - I suppose a median community would be some kind of an offline newspaper with readers' comments. If that excites you, more power to you.

Well I find it immoral to optimize for high quality of life while financially oppressing the majority. If the US at least enabled high quality of life for the majority, with exceptional QOF for the few, then great, but that's not happening. So It's not about being excited about something, it's about being anti oligarchy and pro democracy and (true) freedom.

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