1/ Population per 1 billionaire:

Switzerland: 234
Singapore: 267
Sweden: 322
US: 559
Germany: 726
Canada: 950
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Mexico: 8613
India: 10221
Pakistan: 30392
Nigeria: 45488
Tanzania: 55891
Bangladesh: 166769

Which of these groups of countries would you perefer to live in? https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/1246875357610795008

2/ Suppose you knew you were going to be in the bottom 20% of socio-economic status.

Would that change your answer?

Where do people move when given the chance?

Do they move from Mexico to the US or from US to Mexico? Nigeria to Sweden or Sweden to Nigeria?

3/ Could it be that the kinds of institutions that allow some people to become very wealthy are also good for the average person -- and, also for the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum?

Why is the pattern so robust? You can take a look yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_billionaires

4/ Why do educated people take Farhad Manjoo et al seriously?

Is this not a terrible indictment of education?

NB: POPULATION IN THE THOUSANDS

my bad for not clarifying

point is of course entirely unaffected.