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karamazov on Jan 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was...

The entirety of the US is more comparable to Europe as a whole than to any individual European country.

eli_gottlieb on Jan 8, 2014 [–]

Indeed. There's an extreme inequality of quality of life and public services, and it shows up in statistics.

For instance, taken individually, Massachusetts has a higher Human Development Index than the fabled social-democratic paradise of Norway.

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