Ever wonder why Ireland has a higher GDP per capita than the U.K. but the Irish don’t ‘feel better off’? This table tells a fuller story.
Ever wonder why Ireland has a higher GDP per capita than the U.K. but the Irish don’t ‘feel better off’? This table tells a fuller story.
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Doesn’t this completing ignore that Ireland has a lot less inequity? ie there are a low more filthy rich fuckers in the UK but also a lot more living below the poverty line. Give me a more equitable society any day of the week.
275 a month isn’t a dramatic story here.
Ireland has a lot of benefits the UK doesn’t. Much less rampant classism, inequality, and crime and violence for example.
Not being at all grateful for what we have is a sport here.
I personally would rather be the median in Ireland, over the US which is number 1 on this list. Do you think the average Joe in the US is better off, or is that average disposable income skewed by their billionaires
Lived before in UK and Ireland. All standards of living in Ireland are definitely better then in UK. Higher wages, more expensive properties etc…
I would say London throws this chart off.
The title of this post is terrible.
I don’t feel worse off than people in the UK.
If you’re working lower paid jobs in England you’re in an even worse position than here
I lived in england recently and I saw living conditions that I hadn’t seen in Ireland since the 80s. The average rural Irish town has a higher standard of living than many English cities.
Ireland GDP is skewed by the big multi-nationals, that’s why we use gross national income GNI instead
You know the statistics are wrong when Italy is richer than Ireland
This doesn’t feel right either. Denmark and Sweden below Belgium and France? Italy above Ireland? No New Zealand, Monaco, or Liechtenstein?
Disposable income average being so low is fairly easy, Ireland is on the extreme end of the redistribution tax scale. Our top rate kicks in at just over the figure given here where as in most of these countries the top rate kicks in at 5-10 times their disposable income per capita. Also the low paid in Ireland pay almost nothing in tax, half that figure and you pay close to a couple of hundred per annum in Ireland but in the UK you will pay about 10 times that in tax. Not to mention that our unemployment assistance is more than double theirs. We also miss out on tax free investment vehicles almost entirely(its pension or bust) where as most countries have something equivalent to the ISA in the UK which allows a certain amount (20k~) each year to be invested tax free.
TLDR, Irish poor are better off, anyone above the average is worse off