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[–] Raphael@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

New York has more people than Switzerland.

[–] Dr_Duckless@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am not saying there swiss policies will fix USA, but why not tust try! They are not even trying to fix this shitness.

New york have more people than Switzerland. but they also have 3x the money too!!

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why we use per capita for statistics like this. It doesn't matter who has more people if you adjust for population. Now, you could argue density is the problem, but in less dense places in the US the rate is even higher, so...