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[dmlfarmer]

They aren't, dml was counting European royalty and 1000 yr old families who own castles and the Vatican as part of the billionaires club.

Jazz, I am tired of your continued BS on this forum so provide the list of the billionaires that I counted, seeing as you are publicly claiming to know who I counted. And also the names of the billionaires who own the Vatican as you claim.

[Zephyr]

My brain hurts.


Nordic countries are not socialist in the same sense as Venezuela.

People own businesses. In fact, because of state support, there are less obstacles to starting a business.


If your schooling, healthcare, housing are known to be taken care of you can devote time to create build and invent.


The assertion that all advances come out of the USA are so ignorant and ludicrous as to warrant the posters supporting such views to be totally ignored.


There is however somewhat of a difference in development design and invention to help society and better people's lives and society as a whole, vs. The inventor/developers own financial interests only.


The grass is always greener on the other side till you get there.

However, the best way to kill the grass on your side of the fence is by having willful ignorance of the world around you.

[jazz]

Jazz, I am tired of your continued BS on this forum so provide the list of the billionaires that I counted, seeing as you are publicly claiming to know who I counted. And also the names of the billionaires who own the Vatican as you claim.

Geez dml, you had to break out the bolding eh? triggered much. The US has the most millionaires and billionaires on the planet. Breaking it out per capita doesn't change that. Europe is a 5000 year old society. Just holding land that long would make a family a billionaire. US is 300 yrs old and wasnt really settled coast to coast since the mid 1800s. The wealth creation they have attained (outside of conquest) will not ever be repeated in human history.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Swedens top marginal tax rate ( all levels combined) is 70%, and kicks in at equivalent of $98,000 USD. Their neighbors aren't far behind. It would take a long time to become a billionaire taking home 30% of your income. I am inclined to side with Jazz on this one. These are either hereditary elite, or corrupt crony capitalists(socialists) well connected to government largess.

Some animals are more equal than others.

[dmlfarmer]

Jazz, I am tired of your continued BS on this forum so provide the list of the billionaires that I counted, seeing as you are publicly claiming to know who I counted. And also the names of the billionaires who own the Vatican as you claim.

Answer a damn question for once Jazz. I even put it in bold so to draw attention to exactly what I was asking. The answer you gave is YOUR opinion but it does not explain how you knew who I was counting that you claim to know. And I really want to know the names of the billionaires who you stated own the Vatican. Surely you must know who they are if you can make such a claim.

[dmlfarmer]

BTW for anyone thinking Jazz knows what he is talking about regarding wealthy people - my posting was confined to billionaires. You might want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_billionaires

By country the US has the most billionaires in the world. However if you total the number of billionaires in just India and China, you get a higher number of billionaires than are in the US. The continent of Asia has more billionaires.

Jazz took exception to me pointing out that when you look at the ratio of billionaires per population the US does not have the lead, yet he makes the claim they have the most on the planet - but that is only true if you do it by country, not the world. WOW!

[jazz]

Dml, you need help. You make a post crowing about everything in the US is bad including the orange man, then you spin all the metrics with whoppers like what good is health research if you cant afford it and then I post a verifiable metric to counter your TDS that things arent so bad in the US because they have created the richest people on the planet and here you are trying to water that stat down with per capita nonsense.

You dont like BS but leftist spin is right up your alley.

What did trump do to you?