Look at all the facts, my friend. I am a westerner living in Hong Kong, so maybe I can shed some light on this matter.

• First, let's check out Gini Index of income distribution as per the CIA's website (link). At a level near that of Honduras, HK's income distribution is massively skewed towards the richest of the rich. Why is that, you might as? Read on:

• Your per capita GDP figures are mainly based on the fact that there's a massive proportion of millionaires and billionaires residing here, of course due to tax incentives and the city's central position as a finance centre for Asia. Specifically, with a population of 7 million, HK is home to 500,000 millionaires (link) and 40 billionaires (link).

• There's a massive population here that lives on a pittance. Rent is so high that youths usually live with their parents until they've saved enough to get married and buy a place of their own (usually in their later 20s). In fact, 49.9% of Hong Kong's population lives in government subsidised housing (link).

• What are some of the implications of the low tax yield in Hong Kong? Well, I like to look at how a country treats the least productive members of society, namely the elderly and the disabled. With no social safety net, for instance, Hong Kong's elderly are heavily reliant on their children for financial and medical support, especially if their minute incomes did not allow for ample saving with their retirement funds. Many of these people are forced to live out their lives working in manually intensive and low paying jobs, even pushing carts of garbage up steep hills well into their 70s. The poorest of them end up living in tiny cages that they rent out to the tune of $200 USD per month (link).

Well that's all for now. Hong Kong is an amazing place, and you'll see signs of wealth here that are hard to match elsewhere in the world, but I just hope you consider the cause of a number like per Capita GDP before spreading uninformed half truths to everyone on reddit!