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[โ€“] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

per capita wealth: ๐Ÿ‘‹

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

See also: spending said wealth on public education.

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

I think you can combine the two. It's basically places where anybody capable can easily become a grad student and have enough spending money as a grad student to buy chocolate whenever they want.

(Edit: plus some historical bias since they've been giving out Nobel Prizes for more than a century)