[davidebaldini]

Lack of economic growth compounds over the centuries toward remarkable differences between prosperous and miserable countries.

[lesuorac]

Are you also making the claim that the EU lags behind the US in growth?

Otherwise that seems like a non-sequitur.

If you are, it seems that US's advantage [2] is just sheer number of people since the growth/capita is the same [1].

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locat... [2]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locat...

[dandellion]

If that's the case, in Europe we've been compounding growth for many centuries before the US even existed, we must be far ahead of you.

[seba_dos1]

Yes, I wouldn't want to live in the US either.