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Comment by hippo22

16 hours ago

I believe states have their own bankruptcy codes?

Having lived/worked in both Europe and the US, the reason is, quite frankly, that they’re lazy (cultural) and not very smart (brain drain).

Their societies prioritize leisure over work. Nearly everyone with any drive moves to the US to earn much more money.

> not very smart (brain drain)

Large EU countries have a higher per capita scientific output than the US

  • If you weight papers by some measure of impact, e.g. by citation count, this is not true.

    • The Nature Index, which shows that data, already only selects the most impactful journals. I wasn't able to find any data that weighs output by citation count.