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Just looking at a map of Canadian provinces/territories rated by HDI, it really makes it clear how aggressively HDI… …averages? And how little attention it pays to inequality. (Which I think is sorta the point, given that it's supposed to reflect, well, the overall situation, not how uneven it is.)

Like, BC's second on the list, with an HDI of .944, below only Alberta.

BC! BC of all places! I understand how the numbers would produce that kind of result, but:

• The life expectancy distribution here is very uneven and specifically inequitable, given the scale of the necropolitics going on here. It's probably also being propped up due to us having outsourced basically any highly polluting industry to elsewhere — and most of the pollution that isn't being outsourced is greenhouse gases, which spread out globally anyway.
• The "education index" metric is just… …a joke when you consider why the numbers are like that here. Immigrating to Canada without having family to move in with or millions of dollars you're willing to invest often requires absurd amounts of education, and in certain professional fields, the comparatively low pay in BC highly incentivises getting another degree to get better pay without relocating to, for example, Toronto or Seattle.
• The "income index" isn't adjusted at all for rent or house prices.