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>>67569950
>top 7

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>business environment
>america #1

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all countries that didn't make to top-3 should be nuked desu

>tfw #13
suck it nerds

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>>67569950
Go fuck yourself pls

>>67570345
Why is Russia such a 3rd world country?

Cool, Britain is pretty good

>USA

>Higher place than Poland

whhew another rankfest pulled out of a faggot's ass.

>>67570762
USA is white and pooland is slav though

drastic difference

This prosperity index is meme tier
I feel sorry if you feel proud of your country because of this

>>67574617
you only say that because america is low

hello my first world brothers

any list with shitholes like norway, canada, the netherlands, and finland in the top 5 is irrelevant
switzerland is nice though

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>>67576139
but norway, canada, holland and finland are objectively better countries than 'murica, and you can't prove me wrong

>>67576139
>*FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT*

>ranked 1st

life is pretty cool here, but I didn't think it's better than literally every other country in the world

>>67575921
t. just barely

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>>67569950
>bullshit statistic the .png
Finland is literally, I MEAN LITERALLY, incapable of being better in anything than Switzerland.

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>>67569950
>subtly cropping New Zealand out of the picture

just like on the world map

>>67578319
kek

>>67574150
>usa
>calling anyone pooland

*cringe*

>>67576284
estonia and hungary are full of happy people who eat good food and drink good alcohol. why is finland such a fucking shit? you're really the failure of the finnougricum tbf

>>67578319
Where?

>>67582199
because the quality of life is so good in finland, that people can't deal with hardships.
if you lose someone or something valuable to you (your job for example), some people just think that their life is done for now. so they start to drink and then finally commit sudoku

>>67582366
exactly

>>67582469
this kind of mentality is completely fucked up and i'm not saying this in a condescending way, but in a 'i am so sorry this shit is yours to bare' way

>>67582551
well you can't have everything. success has made us soft, especially when comparing current finns to what we were 100 years ago.

>>67582758
that's not a fair comparison in any country. except perhaps some really messed up parts of the world, like russia, or africa

wtf are you faggots even on about?

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>>67569950
>let's make a list of countries i like and connect stupid numbers to it to make it seem like science

>>67582906
welcome to

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>>67582906
you don't unironically think that do you

>>67583436
yet there is only one way of looking at an arbitrary list of countries which are weighed against each other by cryptic icons with no real data or explanations of how calculations were done etc etc etc ending with the fact that the user of the site can adjust the scaling factor of each term...

it is the ironic kind of way

>>67583523
the link is in OP and you didn't even bother looking at it

http://www.prosperity.com/about/methodology

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>>67583644
you underestimate. i did look at it. but not in depth because i already know the calculations are memes.

take for example this picture. find flaws in it. if you find less than 5 you are an idiot

>>67583644
>http://www.prosperity.com/about/methodology
just went through this

not a word of concrete methodology, only flashy pictures and round talk about how great their own shit tastes like

0/100 on the scale of science

>>67583819
well, what about this then you fucking autist

http://www.prosperity.com/application/files/1914/7819/5146/Legatum_Prosperity_Index_Methodology_Report.pdf

>>67583884
how big is the pdf? i'm innawoods on mobile with datacap so this is of some importance :D

ps. i just like to use my brain sometimes. you should try too

>>67583884
How does democracy affect prosperity?

>>67583884
>>67583928
nvm

i skipped straight to the meat and found this
>For the subjective variables
dropped from further reading

>>67584011
>Youre telling my living in a dictatorship adversely effects my properity???

>>67584096
I asked you a simple question

>>67584096
depends on who you are doesn't it. if you're high up in the pyramid of power then you're life is a flower. if you're further down, it's shit.

but you're an infantile communist aren't you

>>67584096
Contrary to popular Western belief, however, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing for all places and people. Not all dictatorships end in misery, and not everyone wants to live in a democracy. “A bad democracy might be worse than a humane dictatorship,” Pinker points out.

There is no proof that the desire for freedom and democracy is an innate part of human nature, Ezrow says. As long as quality of life remains high and people are allowed to live their lives as they wish, citizens can be completely happy under a dictatorship. Some even become nostalgic for the authoritarian regime after they lose it. “When I was younger, as a student in graduate school, I just assumed that everyone wanted to be living in a democracy,” Ezrow says. “But if you look at survey research in some countries under authoritarian regimes, people are happy.”

In other words, ending all dictatorships might not be ideal for everyone. As long as leaders avoid the inherent pitfalls of that mode of governance and take their citizens’ wishes into account, dictatorships are simply a different approach for leading a country, one that values order over individual liberties. As Ezrow puts it: “Some cultures may just prefer security and stability over freedom.”

>>67584016
i think you're actually retarded

>>67584158
>>67584150
>>67584114

A dictatorship inherently requires large sums of money to go to corrupt government/army keyholders in order for the dictator to stay in power because he does not rule by will of the people.
That means that by default it will have less money going to the people which equates to less prosperity.

No, there is no such thing as a benevolent dictator that rules without corrupt keyholders

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>>67576139

>>67584502
read the paper yourself. a hundred criteria selected by subjective choice. criteria that are not even objective, but clearly and openly stated as subjective. weighed against eachothers in a subjective manner. the final weighing is left to the end user of this "science"

no my dude, it is you who is the retard here. after all, getting fucking TOLD by an american is already a sign you're not very well in the brain department

sage

hahahahahaha holy shit the paper actually uses a phrase like
>"hard" statistics
in opposition to
>emotional qualities
when they refer to the actual data they have

this is fucking kindergarten children who watched dexter laboratorium and are trying to do respectable science tier BULLSHIT

sage

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>>67584873
Heres a (you), you can stop posting now son

>>67584917
why are the dutch so retarded?

sage

>>67584670
>>67584873
>>67584963
>sage
>sage
>sage

autism

>>67570446
Because nobody bothered to advance it from 19th century yet. No-bo-dy.

>>67569950
>Safety and Security
>Germany, on the brink of civil war because muslims: 7
>Hong Kong, a place that's being forced to be dependent or else China will forcefully invade:11
>Finland, the door step to Russia who hate each other: 18
>Australia, isolated island thousands of miles away from anything and is protected by a super modern air force and navy: 20

How the fuck does that make sense.