re: #190 Yanqui in Europe

So, when people like Cato the Elder say that we are the most prosperous nation on earth, they just mean that we have the most freedom of speech? Even if we were, materially speaking, the poorest nation on earth? I doubt that that’s what he (she) means. I assumed prosperity had something to do with wealth.

I was merely throwing out that there are things that make a place worth living that aren’t measured in currency.

I wouldn’t trade my freedom of religion for anything.

I suppose we could make an equation that factored in wealth, freedoms, liveability of a place (I could not stand a Norwegian winter, for example.), and so on. I believe there are actually websites—seen them referenced here—that measure freedom, stability, etc. of a country.