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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
If you drop Mississippi, Idaho, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Alabama from the US numbers, then the US GDP per capita number would look bigger. Anyone can get different numbers by cherry-picking higher performers and dropping lower performers, but OP wrote "Europe" not "this list of rich countries in Europe".

>>oecdne+031
It's not cherry picking. One of these entities is a nation and the other is not. It's a bad comparison.

>>standa+w31
No it isn't, people compare the EU and the US all the time. A bad comparison would be comparing the US to the Nordic subsection.