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>>blago+(OP)
Tech companies in general and Amazon specifically seem scared to death of unionization. I think Amazon's actions in this matter are going to backfire tremendously.

>>ipsoca+qv
...and anyone who's had to work with a union can understand why.

>>koheri+mJ
You mean like, most of the companies in Europe?

>>jhaywa+ZJ
Europe, which has a per-capita GDP ~1/3 lower than the US.

>>mroset+9M
This didn't pass the smell test, and sure enough Monaco, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, all have higher per capita GDPs. Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and Finland are in the same ballpark or a little lower. Germany and Belgium are lower, but still above 1/3 lower.

UK and France are ~1/3 lower. Italy and Spain are ~50% lower.

>>Pfhrea+vN
2018 numbers I found[1] show the EU as having ~69% the per-capita GDP of US. That's pretty close to 1/3 less.

1: https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/gdp-per-capita

>>aidenn+wO
Right, and if the United States merged with a cross section of less developed countries our GDP per capita would look smaller, too.

>>standa+sU
The US isn't homogenous either. DC, Massachusetts, New York, California, Alaska, and Washington have much higher GDPs per capita than other states / provinces.

>>ummonk+a31
The US is a nation state, the European Union is not. Comparing the two should only be done with a truckload of caveats to begin with. If anything, compare the Eurozone to the US.

>>standa+t31
Using the OECD numbers[1]:

(USGDPPC - EurozoneGDPPC) / AVERAGE(USGDPPC, EurozoneGDPPC) = 0.283

Roughly speaking, you could write this as "The GDP per capita of the Eurozone is 28.3% lower than the US".

[1] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=PDB_LV