"These are just two examples of manipulated statistics, but there are many others. In what appears to be an unending attempt to control public perception.""
"The government knows that the unemployment rate is a statistic with great implications. Therefore multiple administrations have adjusted the number from its original calculation to make it look as low as possible.
Inflation controls the cost of living increases that are paid to employees by both the government and private companies,to minimize the cost of increases, institutional power (both public and private) has an incentive to use a calculation method that minimizes the inflation rate."
"Data released by the government has been so adjusted for political purposes that it is no longer a reflection of what is happening in the economy. These are the descriptive statistics that are quoted in news programs that we collectively used to measure the health of the economy and even the fairness of the economy, and they have been helplessly jerry-rigged. A few examples are listed below:"
@hundredand4 Highest? Real list: 1st Norway 2nd Australia 3rd NL 4th USA 5th Canada 6th New Zealand 7th Sweden 8th Germany Search up on Wikipedia. Its even updated.
@StellandBlood Its true. Best country to live in is Sweden, but Australia, Norway, NL and Canada have better standards of living than USA. Norway sucks its boring as hell, but we'll see how great they are when they run out of oil haha.
@TheSaman67 Iran is not above 0.8 and will not be for long time. raport of 2011 is not published yet,will be on november so don't tell a little lies:)
So please, stop the apology to the United States. It's their intervention and explotation of the world that's kept many countries from developing, incluiding El Salvador, or should I have to remind you about the CIA intervention in El Salvador, the dead priests during the sandinist war, and how American companies take all the woods (and God knows what other natural resources)?
By the way, I'm Chilean too, and I don't need the US to educate myself. What Chilean students is quality education, but that takes money. Chile has money too, but it's taken by Spanish, Brittish and American companies exploding chilean natural resources, whose profits should go to chilean people, and not some wealthy bussinessman in London or New York.
Ill take Chile as example, cus its one of the few countries that do not need their people to go away to get a better life (Chile is the only LAmerican country where migration is positive). But take this into account: I hate Pinochet's abuse and US influence in the way he stopped left-wing policies. However, if you watch the current Chilean international exchanging economic model, what has made it succesful, it's 80% based on Pinochet's and the US's model. That is how it is =) or =(
I know your politics view may influence you to hate or love the states. I find them abusive. But how I told you, that is how the world is stablished, and it is very difficult to develop an african or american country with a method different than capitalism. If I had to make the world, Id do it like John Lennon's imagine, but its too late.
Anyway, its a good discussion the one i had with you
And abput the States my point was that the main GDP source in El Salvador, for example, come from wages from ppl living abroad, mainly in the US, and the problem is that these kind of countries' governments dont care about encouraging people to have (what we occidental ppl call) a good quality of life.
This HDI chart is based on common European habits, and no one can deny that, Im not saying is good or bad that for some cultures it is right to die at 50, but theyre clearly different =)
I'm Chilean and I'm very proud to be from the Latin American country closest to 9.0 HDI (estimated for 2016). I just say it is hard to lift up life quality to people that likes poverty because its natural for them, it's not a bad thing.
I'm not defending the States. I'm just saying capitalism is a practice natural in european (and maybe well adopted by japanse or korean) people. It's hard for native peoples from Africa and the Americas to adopt capitalism. That's why it always seems that the fewer white people, the lower HDI for every country.
It's really hard for a Salvadoreño to let drugs, bad habits, and think ahead living in poverty.
Education is the solution, but the US can't educate people who's born abroad.
@wotsup9oo Your comment is rather racist and offensive. And pointing the US can't educate people who's born abroad, as if the US were meant to be the saviours of the worlds. Do you know what the US has to do? Stop intervening in the every countries bussiness.
Egyptian revolution shoved it up to American faces: It's NOT everything about YOU.
My comment was an answer to someone who talked about world development. Im saying that some cultures (and I dont mean ethnic groups, cus Japanese and ppl from Singapour have very developed market culture and are not european) have higher interchange habits than others. Amerindians never needed that and will never unless they were forced to do it, as happens now.
And listen well, Im not American and Im not defending them. Im not racist and Im not offending any race. Americans have always pretended theyre the world saviours, but theyre far from that. What I meant was about American (from THE Americas) culture: The US was the first developed nation here and in the world: They are capitalism, and that culture is what promoves competitiveness. Most Latin American succesful countries follow the same American-European example. It's just that.
@wotsup9oo You have to remember how the US became the 1st power: By going to wars they had nothing to do with. It's pretty easy to become a developed country when you destroy the competition, since Europe was left in ruins after both world wars. If there is anything we shouldn't immitate, is US example. You have to remember that most dictatorships in Latin America were U.S. funded and/or supported. I wouldn't like to immitate a system that puts money over everything, incluiding human life.
Most europeans countries are capitalist, that is, follow the US example. You may not like it, I personally dont like it in many aspects, but if you dont, you MAY end up as Cuba or China. There are good and bad things about capitalism, and many bad about the US themselves. Im not setting the US as world example, Im setting it as Capitalism example. Do not get confused.
did you know that estimates say that in next american census latin american will be the majority?? (considering italian americans, spanish-americans, and hispanics)
Now, you compare the states with France??
Please!!!! In France gipsies are thrown away cause the dont like poor-minded immigrants. The USA is full of mexican indigenous peoples.
The HDI downplays - if not outright ignores - the fact that no nation on this fib of a map - is its own universe!Imperialism,anybody?Wealth gaps and income gaps,anybody?Compare this baloney with the Gini Index.How about HDI per person?Irrespective of nationality?Within countries?This map is bourgeois!Pfttt!!!(A)
The USA is an underrrated HDI country in the aspect that the poorer 10-15% population ave been SINCE CENTURIES newly immigrant peoples.
So we can state that the US-born citizens, and even more, the US citizens whose parents were born in the US have a much higher quality of life and HDI than it is represented.
European countries, but for Spain, dont have a so high immigration rate :)
Im not excusing man, name an european country whose 80% of the population came from abroad to get a better life in the last 100 years.
BTW Im not American (and dont give a fuck about them), But that's just true, 20% of poorer americans are mexicans-americans or latinamerican-americans
I am an American,I don't understand why Americans become angry when their country is not number one?Why call the UN a socialist organization and all the name calling?Some say I still love my country,the HDI never said you should not love your country!LOL HAHAH!Why do my fellow Americans take this personally?Niger is ranked last,and still it's people love their country.You guys miss the point.Congrats to Norway,a very peaceful and high standard country.
@archiebunkerville I agree with you- the HDI is a measurement made up by the UN, who themselves are a bunch of socialists and one-world government types. Because of this, it is not surprising that top-ranked countries by HDI are mostly Socialistic European welfare states, namely the Scandinavian countries and many Western European countries.
Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity
Knowledge and education, as measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrollment ratio (with one-third weighting).
Standard of living, as measured by the natural logarithm of gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity.
its actually a fairly objective measure as is the measure that found the the french to have the best health care system and yours #37 you american along with being pathetically anti intellectualcant accept how far behind your system is in quality of life..you refuse to accept your greed and gluttony is digging a grave for you fine
when china and india are rulng the world
we'll seel them brie and merlot
i'm sure they can apreciate culture more than you cowboy buffoons
@TheZider - I am a citizen of the USA. Although our HDI is not #1 like Norway, I love my country and am very grateful for both the high living standards and the freedoms that I enjoy and too often, take for granted.
"These are just two examples of manipulated statistics, but there are many others. In what appears to be an unending attempt to control public perception.""
StellandBlood 2 months ago
"The government knows that the unemployment rate is a statistic with great implications. Therefore multiple administrations have adjusted the number from its original calculation to make it look as low as possible.
Inflation controls the cost of living increases that are paid to employees by both the government and private companies,to minimize the cost of increases, institutional power (both public and private) has an incentive to use a calculation method that minimizes the inflation rate."
StellandBlood 2 months ago
"Data released by the government has been so adjusted for political purposes that it is no longer a reflection of what is happening in the economy. These are the descriptive statistics that are quoted in news programs that we collectively used to measure the health of the economy and even the fairness of the economy, and they have been helplessly jerry-rigged. A few examples are listed below:"
StellandBlood 2 months ago
Doesn´t one wonders why the IMF,World Bank,UN,(World Trade Center) all have their main headquaters in the USA..........its too obvious..........
StellandBlood 2 months ago
Why are all the Euros pissed USA is among the highest rated?
hundredand4 2 months ago 6
UltimateOwnz 2 months ago
@UltimateOwnz
USA 4th,above Sweden and Canada HAHAHA.........ridiculous,all USA economic stats are faked,build over by governemental bribes.
StellandBlood 2 months ago
@StellandBlood Its true. Best country to live in is Sweden, but Australia, Norway, NL and Canada have better standards of living than USA. Norway sucks its boring as hell, but we'll see how great they are when they run out of oil haha.
UltimateOwnz 2 months ago
@UltimateOwnz I didn't say it was the highest, just one of the highest.
hundredand4 1 month ago
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wow i'm glad to see that my country south korea rated first grade
dhksrksalem 7 months ago
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dhksrksalem 7 months ago
Actually it is as of 2010 I've studied economics and have a masters degree and trust me I research from many sources before I formally say anything
TheSaman67 8 months ago
@TheSaman67 Iran has a Human Development Index of 0.707 and ranks 88th
But it doesn't have any data as far as Inequality-Adjusted HDI is concerned because its GINI Coefficient figures are missing...
Why lie on the internet?...People always find out...
P.S: Posting one's qualifications on YouTube, whether true or not, will usually attract scepticism from others...
I for instance Graduated Summa Cum Laude From Harvard University in Quantum Physics....if you chose to believe me...
Varoonmg 3 months ago
The info is wrong Iran HDI is high around 0.8 but that's 2011 report!
TheSaman67 11 months ago
@TheSaman67 Iran is not above 0.8 and will not be for long time. raport of 2011 is not published yet,will be on november so don't tell a little lies:)
MrThorn88 8 months ago
So please, stop the apology to the United States. It's their intervention and explotation of the world that's kept many countries from developing, incluiding El Salvador, or should I have to remind you about the CIA intervention in El Salvador, the dead priests during the sandinist war, and how American companies take all the woods (and God knows what other natural resources)?
ivanspiks 1 year ago
By the way, I'm Chilean too, and I don't need the US to educate myself. What Chilean students is quality education, but that takes money. Chile has money too, but it's taken by Spanish, Brittish and American companies exploding chilean natural resources, whose profits should go to chilean people, and not some wealthy bussinessman in London or New York.
ivanspiks 1 year ago
@ivanspiks
Ill take Chile as example, cus its one of the few countries that do not need their people to go away to get a better life (Chile is the only LAmerican country where migration is positive). But take this into account: I hate Pinochet's abuse and US influence in the way he stopped left-wing policies. However, if you watch the current Chilean international exchanging economic model, what has made it succesful, it's 80% based on Pinochet's and the US's model. That is how it is =) or =(
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
@ivanspiks
I know your politics view may influence you to hate or love the states. I find them abusive. But how I told you, that is how the world is stablished, and it is very difficult to develop an african or american country with a method different than capitalism. If I had to make the world, Id do it like John Lennon's imagine, but its too late.
Anyway, its a good discussion the one i had with you
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
And abput the States my point was that the main GDP source in El Salvador, for example, come from wages from ppl living abroad, mainly in the US, and the problem is that these kind of countries' governments dont care about encouraging people to have (what we occidental ppl call) a good quality of life.
This HDI chart is based on common European habits, and no one can deny that, Im not saying is good or bad that for some cultures it is right to die at 50, but theyre clearly different =)
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
it's time someone kicks us off the #1 spot, we are getting cocky :P
but yeah, norway is a great country to live in
numb1010 1 year ago
@numb1010
You are very welcome!
nema1218 1 year ago
@nema1218 for what? :D
numb1010 1 year ago
I'm Chilean and I'm very proud to be from the Latin American country closest to 9.0 HDI (estimated for 2016). I just say it is hard to lift up life quality to people that likes poverty because its natural for them, it's not a bad thing.
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
@wotsup9oo It is highly agreed that this decade Chile will become the next developed country. Some very rare in recent history.
lunaix 1 year ago
I'm not defending the States. I'm just saying capitalism is a practice natural in european (and maybe well adopted by japanse or korean) people. It's hard for native peoples from Africa and the Americas to adopt capitalism. That's why it always seems that the fewer white people, the lower HDI for every country.
It's really hard for a Salvadoreño to let drugs, bad habits, and think ahead living in poverty.
Education is the solution, but the US can't educate people who's born abroad.
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
@wotsup9oo Your comment is rather racist and offensive. And pointing the US can't educate people who's born abroad, as if the US were meant to be the saviours of the worlds. Do you know what the US has to do? Stop intervening in the every countries bussiness.
Egyptian revolution shoved it up to American faces: It's NOT everything about YOU.
ivanspiks 1 year ago
@ivanspiks
My comment was an answer to someone who talked about world development. Im saying that some cultures (and I dont mean ethnic groups, cus Japanese and ppl from Singapour have very developed market culture and are not european) have higher interchange habits than others. Amerindians never needed that and will never unless they were forced to do it, as happens now.
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
@ivanspiks
And listen well, Im not American and Im not defending them. Im not racist and Im not offending any race. Americans have always pretended theyre the world saviours, but theyre far from that. What I meant was about American (from THE Americas) culture: The US was the first developed nation here and in the world: They are capitalism, and that culture is what promoves competitiveness. Most Latin American succesful countries follow the same American-European example. It's just that.
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
@wotsup9oo You have to remember how the US became the 1st power: By going to wars they had nothing to do with. It's pretty easy to become a developed country when you destroy the competition, since Europe was left in ruins after both world wars. If there is anything we shouldn't immitate, is US example. You have to remember that most dictatorships in Latin America were U.S. funded and/or supported. I wouldn't like to immitate a system that puts money over everything, incluiding human life.
ivanspiks 1 year ago
@ivanspiks
Most europeans countries are capitalist, that is, follow the US example. You may not like it, I personally dont like it in many aspects, but if you dont, you MAY end up as Cuba or China. There are good and bad things about capitalism, and many bad about the US themselves. Im not setting the US as world example, Im setting it as Capitalism example. Do not get confused.
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
@TimW1983
In the usa the 99% is immigrant!!
and they are constantly renewing immigrants
did you know that estimates say that in next american census latin american will be the majority?? (considering italian americans, spanish-americans, and hispanics)
Now, you compare the states with France??
Please!!!! In France gipsies are thrown away cause the dont like poor-minded immigrants. The USA is full of mexican indigenous peoples.
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
The HDI downplays - if not outright ignores - the fact that no nation on this fib of a map - is its own universe!Imperialism,anybody?Wealth gaps and income gaps,anybody?Compare this baloney with the Gini Index.How about HDI per person?Irrespective of nationality?Within countries?This map is bourgeois!Pfttt!!!(A)
anarksee 1 year ago
THIS IS BULLSHIT, NORTH KOREA SHOULD BE #1 THEY HAVE THE DEAR LEADER
terrorfalc 1 year ago
This is bullshit!
TubeExpression 1 year ago
Canada ranked first eight times and they aren't "socialist" :\
ChrissyTinaLand 1 year ago
One thing you may not know
The USA is an underrrated HDI country in the aspect that the poorer 10-15% population ave been SINCE CENTURIES newly immigrant peoples.
So we can state that the US-born citizens, and even more, the US citizens whose parents were born in the US have a much higher quality of life and HDI than it is represented.
European countries, but for Spain, dont have a so high immigration rate :)
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
@wotsup9oo
Stop making excuses, there are poor immigrants in every country.
terrorfalc 1 year ago
@terrorfalc
Im not excusing man, name an european country whose 80% of the population came from abroad to get a better life in the last 100 years.
BTW Im not American (and dont give a fuck about them), But that's just true, 20% of poorer americans are mexicans-americans or latinamerican-americans
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
@wotsup9oo Source?
RapidEyesCream 1 year ago
@RapidEyesCream
US Censes =)
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
Chile the best in Latin America
Next year we'll be over 0.9
wotsup9oo 1 year ago
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I am an American,I don't understand why Americans become angry when their country is not number one?Why call the UN a socialist organization and all the name calling?Some say I still love my country,the HDI never said you should not love your country!LOL HAHAH!Why do my fellow Americans take this personally?Niger is ranked last,and still it's people love their country.You guys miss the point.Congrats to Norway,a very peaceful and high standard country.
nema1218 1 year ago 10
@nema1218 Thank you :)
Mikkhep 1 year ago
Australia will be number 1 in a couple of years at most.
theheretic999 2 years ago
notice how all the nations at the top of this list are "socialist"
archiebunkerville 2 years ago 17
@archiebunkerville I agree with you- the HDI is a measurement made up by the UN, who themselves are a bunch of socialists and one-world government types. Because of this, it is not surprising that top-ranked countries by HDI are mostly Socialistic European welfare states, namely the Scandinavian countries and many Western European countries.
kevinwinstonshen 2 years ago
The HDI combines three dimensions:
Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity
Knowledge and education, as measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrollment ratio (with one-third weighting).
Standard of living, as measured by the natural logarithm of gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity.
archiebunkerville 2 years ago
its actually a fairly objective measure as is the measure that found the the french to have the best health care system and yours #37 you american along with being pathetically anti intellectualcant accept how far behind your system is in quality of life..you refuse to accept your greed and gluttony is digging a grave for you fine
when china and india are rulng the world
we'll seel them brie and merlot
i'm sure they can apreciate culture more than you cowboy buffoons
archiebunkerville 2 years ago
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
archiebunkerville 2 years ago
@ archiebunkerville What country are you from? (I am from the USA).
kevinwinstonshen 2 years ago
Je suis français ! Pourquoi me pensez-vous avoir cet accent indigne ?/I am French! Why do you think I have this outrageous accent ?
archiebunkerville 2 years ago
Actually thats not true. If you plot HDI versus Economic Freedom you'll see that there is a positive correlation.
atafto 1 year ago
@archiebunkerville Social Democracy? HELL YEAH!!!
Bronzecop 1 year ago
@archiebunkerville Europe is socialist?
BMBaccount 1 year ago
@archiebunkerville not Sweden!
multiYellowHorse 2 months ago
norway is best...=) norge er best=) norge er klart best i alt=) hurra
TheZider 2 years ago 3
@TheZider - I am a citizen of the USA. Although our HDI is not #1 like Norway, I love my country and am very grateful for both the high living standards and the freedoms that I enjoy and too often, take for granted.
kevinwinstonshen 2 years ago