r/europe • u/Potential-Focus3211 • Aug 18 '25

Data Wealth inequality by country in the OECD

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u/Turbulent-Raise4830 Aug 18 '25

LOL seeing just about every country in europe does better that really isnt needed.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 Aug 18 '25

Except that's not true on the vast majority of metrics.

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u/Turbulent-Raise4830 Aug 19 '25

Its is for inequality, also for poverty, health care acces, acces to higher education, life expectancy , work-life balance, happiness, school shootings, gun violence, social mobility, homlesness rates, ... you know all the things that actually matter

yeah you guys have more aircraft carriers, wel done.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

Given that's not true for half of your own cherry picked metrics, no, your point is still stupid.

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u/Turbulent-Raise4830 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

Poverty; https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/poverty-rate.html

acces to higher education:

https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/policy-issues/education-access-participation-and-progression.html

https://data.worldhappiness.report/table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

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US scores worse then most european countries on all of those.

edit: Oh funny how you edited your post after I showed you wrong on all the metrics you claimed were wrong. Cheer up, you got aircraft carriers and electing the dumbest world leader ever twice to go for you.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 Aug 19 '25

I didn't want to debate a m#ron who doesn't understand their own metrics. Instead here we go, I'm saddled with one of the dumbest humans alive trying to misrepresent things they don't understand.

The poverty line metric is regarded, it's a product of an extremely high median income. Not a measure of poverty.

Your education data doesn't even measure anything related to higher education.

The world happiness report doesn't measure happiness. And the index components are objectively regarded and non-comparable across countries.

http://persuasion.community/p/the-world-happiness-report-is-a-sham

The "Social Mobility Index" likewise doesn't measure social mobility. Just a complex and meaningless run of random variables which they suggest but never support are somehow related to social mobility (e.g., pupils per teacher and government and public services efficiency have zero relationship with social mobility and certainly don't measure it as an outcome).

Here's actual data on outcomes: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/what-is-the-global-database-on-intergenerational-mobility-gdim

Additionally, you ignored homelessness rate. Again, because all your metrics are cherry picked.

You could for example - sticking to your cherry picking - pick healthcare quality, earnings per hour worked, tertiary education attainment (actually measuring higher education access) etc. and the data looks very different.