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Originally Posted by Atrial78
Important to note that economic growth itself doesn't necessarily lead to a higher quality of life. There are many factors involved, especially the distribution of growth.
I've lived in both the US and Canada and from my experience, the average Canadian lives a better life than the average American. We really take for granted things like functional government, a reasonably educated populace and education costs, reasonable healthcare costs, good infrastructure, expanding public transit in our major cities, etc.
GDP per capita certainly needs to increase, however at the moment Mark Carney appears to have the better plan to actually accomplish this.
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I've never argued that those things aren't important. If we're going to settle for being less wealthy, we really need to stop comparing ourselves to the United States. I'm honestly not sure why you even brought the USA into this, except to handwave away the problem. Ex America, just about every country that has a higher GDP per capita than we do also has better healthcare, better infrastructure including public transit, better social supports, and equally functional governments.
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Originally Posted by Loco101
I totally agree with you. Canada always comes out on top when it comes to quality of life for the average person.
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"Canada ranks second last in OECD for economic growth over the last 10 years."
"At least our quality of life is better than the Americans".
Like seriously...what? There are 16 other countries with higher GDPs per capita and 34 that have done better in the last 10 years that we can compare to.
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