Re: Copper theft

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:00:47 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:29:45 +0200, David Brown
<david.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

The CIA Factbook, www.cia.gov

(Per capita GDP in parity purchasing power):
(view in Courier font)
GDP Debt
Population (PPP) (% GDP) Unemployment
---------- ------- ------ ------------
Belguim 10,379,067 $31,400 94.3 8.4%
France 60,876,136 29,900 66.2 9.9
Germany 82,422,299 30,400 67.3 11.7
U.K. 60,609,153 30,300 43.1 4.7
Norway 4,610,820 42,300 50.1 4.6
Spain 40,397,842 25,500 42.9 9.2
Italy 58,133,509 29,200 108.8 7.7
Netherlands 16,491,461 30,500 52.7 6.6
Isle of Man 75,441 28,500 0.6
United States 298,444,215 41,800 64.7 5.1


These figures are already scaled in the mythical "parity purchasing
power" (it's mythical, since different things cost different amounts in
different countries - there can be no single scale factor. In Norway,
for example, material goods are cheap, but services are expensive).
Thus differences such as cheaper oil in the USA will scale in the favour
of the USA. Looking at the nominal figures (not adjusted by cost of
living estimates) puts the USA at about $20,000 below Norway.

Additionally, these figures are based on arithmetic mean averages, and
are therefore skewed by the USA's greater spread of incomes. The
GDP(PPP) may represent the average purchasing power of citizens, but it
doesn't represent the purchasing power of the average citizen.

http://abstractnonsense.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/the-usas-economic-inequality/

[snip]

Bull-pucky. Wishing yourself affluent won't make it happen, though
you are perfectly free to wish yourself effluent ;-)

---
Funny how "flush" applies equally well to being either affluent or
effluent ;)


--
John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer
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