It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.

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    5 months ago

    Also, it is ranked 57th when sorted worst to best. It is sorted at 120th from best to worst. Worse than 119 other nations.

    Yes, 57th when sorted from worst to best, I never said otherwise. And your numbers are a little off when sorting the other way around. There are only 162 countries with rankings in that list, so flipping it around puts the U.S. at 105th (behind 104 other nations).
    Besides, we’re looking at the Gini Coefficient which (with the countries on this list) has a range of ~23 to ~63, and a score of ~40 is right in the middle of that. In no way is the U.S. at the top of that list, but I still don’t see how you can consider it to be “one of the worst countries in the world for income inequality”.

    You’ve invented a thing and then are using your own invention to sort terms that have actual meanings not related to your invented scale

    I mean, I’m trying to explain in other terms so that we can understand each other better?

    And if I understand this right, you’re saying that it doesn’t make sense to create a scale where:

    • one side of it is laissez fair capitalism, a completely free market economy with no government regulation
    • the other side is an economy entirely run/controlled by the government with complete government regulation (such as communism)

    Communism isn’t a scale

    I never said it was a scale. I just placed it at one end of the scale. The scale being “how much control a government has over the market.”

    On that scale, the U.S. is mostly capitalist, I have never said otherwise.