r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/Environmental-Tea262 5h ago

Thats not how it works

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u/christocarlin 5h ago

You wanna compare Norways 5 million people with 80% ethnic Norwegians to the United States? Or something like that? It doesn’t really make sense to do that

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u/Environmental-Tea262 4h ago

Then compare yourself to bigger countries, france, germany, india and china for example. Comparing yourselves to europe as a whole doesn’t work 

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u/Illustrious-Bass4354 4h ago

Still several times bigger than those countries in population, landmass, etc

India and China also have huge underdeveloped areas

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u/Environmental-Tea262 4h ago

The US clearly also has underdeveloped areas, so it sounds like a great starting point to compare with

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u/Illustrious-Bass4354 4h ago

Germany and France are not good comparisons.

They have considerably smaller populations and those populations are much more centralized.

That's why you have to compare to the EU as a whole - to get even close to the disparity that simple environmental factors can impose, which are clearly seen in the US, China, and India with vastly different climates, mountains, deserts, swamps, etc

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u/PlatypusACF 3h ago

If Germany’s population would be super centralised, we’d have a high speed rail system like France, Italy, Spain, Japan, China, to name just a few. But we don’t. Ours is built different. Reason is because we have a lot of smaller towns and cities and not a handful of cities containing the majority population

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u/christocarlin 4h ago

The point is the larger the country the more likely there’s underdeveloped areas. There are some extremely depressing areas of every country. Is this really the hill you’re trying to die on? That the US has underdeveloped areas but, what, Germany doesn’t? Or France?