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So gdp growth rather overstates the increase in lifing standard.
Matthew Yglesias » Policy Implications of Non-Commercial Production 2010
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I have always just dragged the deer out, hunt in the VA mtns, thinking about this year going with the quartering technique to maybe put less strain on my body dragging the deer and lifing it over rock croppings and fallen down trees.
Has anyone had to drag or quarter and haul pieces of any Big Game animal over 1 mile? 2009
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There is nothing wrong with cutting the lifing standards in Greece, the US or Iceland.
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Unsurprising, the European countries that avoided the most war damage in Europe have the highest lifing standards independent of their economic system.
Matthew Yglesias » The United States Has Always Been Rich 2010
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So yes, there is this no one should ever be allowed to fall in social status, as long as we make the differences in lifing standard aceptable, which implies that no one can rise either.
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To name a few obvious factors, big devastating wars or resource windfalls influence gdp and lifing standard.
Matthew Yglesias » The United States Has Always Been Rich 2010
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The US is a notrious outliner compared to the rest of the world insofar as she lacks in every other thinkable category of lifing standard compared to gdp like child mortality, life expectancy or working hours.
Matthew Yglesias » The United States Has Always Been Rich 2010
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I have always just dragged the deer out, hunt in the VA mtns, thinking about this year going with the quartering technique to maybe put less strain on my body dragging the deer and lifing it over rock croppings and fallen down trees.
Has anyone had to drag or quarter and haul pieces of any Big Game animal over 1 mile? 2009
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Many factors beyond social or economic policy influence gdp and lifing standard, and the first only tracks the latter very inacurate.
Matthew Yglesias » The United States Has Always Been Rich 2010
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Imagine having to do all that heavy lifing for weeks on end.
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