Thursday, June 24, 2021

We're not doing too well

What do you think of these numbers from a piece by Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times?

Greeks have higher high school graduation rates. 
Chileans live longer. 
Fifteen-year-olds in Russia, Poland, Latvia and many other countries are better at math than their American counterparts 
One-fifth of American 15-year-olds can’t read at the level expected of a 10-year-old.
The Social Progress Index, a measure of health, safety and well-being around the world, ranked the United States No. 28. Even worse, the United States was one of only three countries, out of 163, that went backward in well-being over the last decade.
The I.M.D. World Competitiveness Ranking for 2021 put the United States No. 10 out of 64 economies. 
The World Bank ranks the United States No. 35 out of 174 countries.
The World Bank Human Capital Project estimates that today’s American children will achieve only 70 percent of their potential productivity.

And my comment:
All empires eventually fail; they are having shorter life spans. I think we are on the downward spiral.

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