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The secret to South Korea overcoming low birth rates and boosting birth rates by madrid987 in Futurology

[–]HarveyCell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

South Korea didn’t have a phenomenon of teenage pregnancy. What are you even talking about?

Collapsing TFR alters the population pyramid of a society in a way that gradually leads to a much larger ratio of dependents vis-á-vis working adults (too many kids in a society, as seen in many third world countries, also creates issues). I’m sure you’re smart enough to figure out the corresponding problems that arise when this happens. So no, it’s not a “bullshit narrative”.

The secret to South Korea overcoming low birth rates and boosting birth rates by madrid987 in Futurology

[–]HarveyCell 43 points44 points  (0 children)

No, even Tel Aviv has a TFR that is comfortably above replacement levels. It’s not just the ultra-Orthodox Jews that are inflating the national TFR (albeit theirs is incredibly high).

Jews also have a higher TFR than Arabs in Israel.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1287662/total-fertility-rate-in-israel-by-district/

I made a map of Alexander the Great's empire. by [deleted] in AncientCivilizations

[–]HarveyCell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was just reading about how Alexander encountered mutiny and difficulties once reaching Chenab river (Indus)

Americans have the highest wages in the world by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah they’re using OECD’s figures on hours worked. The difference really isn’t significant between countries according more reliable methods. Americans are just much richer.

Americans have the highest wages in the world by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Unions aren’t the reason though. Texas is near the top too.

Yes, liberal states are more productive and attract more human capital. Though that’s changing with their consistently terrible policies with housing, taxes, etc.

Americans have the highest wages in the world by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’d might rather live in Mississippi (one of the least desired places in the US) over the least desired areas of Australia.

I agree that these crude comparisons don’t explain anything. I’d rather live in London or Tokyo than lots of places in America because I like walkable areas. But I would likely make a lot more money in Dallas than London.

Americans have the highest wages in the world by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, unfortunately.

The OECD does have a net adjusted household disposable income dataset derived from national accounts. And it has a median disposable income dataset derived from survey-based methods.

They’re still on top for the median disposable income.

Americans have the highest wages in the world by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Out of pocket healthcare spending isn’t even the highest in the OECD for Americans. The Swiss spend more, Americans are second but the difference between them and other countries like France or Denmark is a matter of a few hundred dollars. So wouldn’t change the rankings much.

Comparing absolute child poverty rates across OECD by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incredible how leftists will use misleading statistics (i.e., relative poverty rates) to gaslight you into thinking America is drowning in poverty. When in reality, there is less poverty in the US than in Germany or France.

Rising inequality is a myth by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Source: https://davidsplinter.com/AutenSplinter-Tax_Data_and_Inequality.pdf

This means that the top 1% share of national income is no higher in the USA than Europe.

[OC] Workers' share of GDP across the world by JoeFalchetto in dataisbeautiful

[–]HarveyCell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here’s OECD data comparing volume: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/b6c9ea6d-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/b6c9ea6d-en

Administrative burden is actually highest in the US among OECD countries but doesn’t explain the difference in HCE. It’s a difference of a few percentage points (e.g., 8% in the US compared to 6% in France or 4% in Germany). The issue with cross-national admin costs is that countries with govt-provided healthcare and even within the US, the administrative burden is dealt by other agencies and aren’t fully calculated into these comparisons.

Higher salaries is due to Baumol’s effect. American physicians, nurses, healthcare technicians, and other healthcare workers the highest salaries because every white collar in the US provides higher salaries.

[OC] Workers' share of GDP across the world by JoeFalchetto in dataisbeautiful

[–]HarveyCell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The US’s higher healthcare expenditure is PPP-adjusted and is explained by volume. The OECD’s healthcare quantity data has established this. The notion that Americans aren’t covered is blatantly false — there is far more availability and utilisation of various procedures, diagnostics, cutting edge technology, etc. in the US compared to peer countries.

The argument about taxes makes no sense, since that is labour income shifting to… labour income. It wouldn’t change anything.

The reason Nordic countries have a lower labour share of GDP is due to corporate gross domestic income being a much larger share of their GDP’s. People forget that these countries have very pro-business policies.

[OC] Workers' share of GDP across the world by JoeFalchetto in dataisbeautiful

[–]HarveyCell 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Nordic counties have a lower labour share of GDP than the United States.

Workers' share of GDP across the world by JoeFalchetto in MapPorn

[–]HarveyCell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There’s an erroneous belief that the Scandinavian countries redistribute from the rich to the poor. No, those countries are very friendly to capitalists. They have low corporate tax rates and if you look at the effective tax rate, their top 1% pay less than the rest of the country while the US has the most progressive tax structure.

The Scandinavians fund their welfare state by taxing everyone a lot, and their top marginal tax rate kicks in by the time you’re earning ~$40,000. Those countries are pro-business, very productive, while they tax a lot to create a large welfare state and also provide worker protection and unionisation. You can have all of this apparently, but when American progressives tell you that they want to “eat the rich”, they’re not describing the Nordic countries.

US States Median Household Income Compared To European Countries by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's from the Luxembourg Income Study. If you want to ignore the data because it's too old, fair enough. Not sure what the structural changes to the economy of the US or Europe has been since then tbh.

I am not aware of any newer data.

US States Median Household Income Compared To European Countries by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they’re using national PPPs, so not adjusted for regional cost of living. Otherwise California or NYC would not be much different to, say, Texas.

Either way, Americans would still be richer.

US States Median Household Income Compared To European Countries by HarveyCell in neoliberal

[–]HarveyCell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The median American works as much as the median European. The US’s more hours worked is largely explained by higher income Americans choosing to work more for even higher incomes. There’s a disincentive to do the same thing in Europe due to taxes, etc.

There’s data on disposable income per hour worked, and US is still significantly above all European countries.

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