<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bigfudge</author><text>Or we could choose to prioritise humans over the meaningless growth figures the US values. When the median income has barely changed or even shrunk overall growth number is irrelevant. In fact it&amp;#x27;s worse than irrelevant — it means your society is more uneven, which has many second order costs.&lt;p&gt;What we actually need to do is develop a political and economic language which values things people actually care about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>waihtis</author><text>The Nordic countries must adapt away from this pre-globalization mentality or have all of their assets slowly withered away by more flexible economies. The same exact problem applies to Finland where I&amp;#x27;m from.&lt;p&gt;Euro-area economies are stagnant or shrinking whilst US economy is churning onwards like a madman. They will buy all of our assets away over time unless we start seriously competing.&lt;p&gt;Sad, but this is the only choice now that we&amp;#x27;ve chosen to participate in the global economy.</text></item><item><author>anon23432343</author><text>Welcome to Sweden :)&lt;p&gt;Unions are strong here which in general is a good thing!&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t also fire people just for willing to join or create a union!&lt;p&gt;This is not the U S of A. Were you can get fired for stuff which you have the right to do.&lt;p&gt;I hope the unions will win soon!&lt;p&gt;I my self joined the &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&amp;#x2F;in-english&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&amp;#x2F;in-english&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars</title><url>https://www.malarna.nu/om-oss/nyheter/20232/pressmeddelande-malarna-stoppar-lackering-av-tesla-bilar/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjulius</author><text>&amp;gt;... whilst US economy is churning onwards like a madman.&lt;p&gt;Ask the average US citizen if it feels that way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>waihtis</author><text>The Nordic countries must adapt away from this pre-globalization mentality or have all of their assets slowly withered away by more flexible economies. The same exact problem applies to Finland where I&amp;#x27;m from.&lt;p&gt;Euro-area economies are stagnant or shrinking whilst US economy is churning onwards like a madman. They will buy all of our assets away over time unless we start seriously competing.&lt;p&gt;Sad, but this is the only choice now that we&amp;#x27;ve chosen to participate in the global economy.</text></item><item><author>anon23432343</author><text>Welcome to Sweden :)&lt;p&gt;Unions are strong here which in general is a good thing!&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t also fire people just for willing to join or create a union!&lt;p&gt;This is not the U S of A. Were you can get fired for stuff which you have the right to do.&lt;p&gt;I hope the unions will win soon!&lt;p&gt;I my self joined the &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&amp;#x2F;in-english&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&amp;#x2F;in-english&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars</title><url>https://www.malarna.nu/om-oss/nyheter/20232/pressmeddelande-malarna-stoppar-lackering-av-tesla-bilar/</url></story>