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Daily Discussion Thread:🥝 Mon 25 Mar 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] bull@aussie.zone 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand what this means. What's a human development index and how does it relate to those numbers?

[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It means the rest of us in vic are 1/2 human.

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago

i'm bacon

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's an odd measurement. I mainly care because it means we're superior to tassieburgers :)

Seriously though, it's meant to measure things like poverty, literacy, unemployment, the things usually deemed essential in western societies. The worldwide chart seems to list the US quite high up though, so I'm not sure it really reflects anything besides "how well developed are rich people in western countries" vs "how undeveloped are the poorest people in the poorest countries"