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One view:
It really isn't that hard to remember the answer to this question. Think about how you could say "You are better than I am." It would not make sense if you were to say "You are better than me am." Therefore the answer to this question is "You are better than I."
Another way to think of this is at the beginning of the sentence "I am better than you" it says "I"not "me" so if you turn that sentence backwards it would be "You are better than I" not "You are better than me."
Another view:
In modern day English, it is acceptable to say "You are better than me." The "than I" version is archaic, and might be okay in a very formal context, but not colloquially. A rule that describes modern English is that you use the subject forms of the pronouns (i.e., "I", "he", "we", and so on) as the unconjoined subject of an explicit finite verb, but elsewhere you use the object forms (i.e., "me", "him", "us", and so on). This view considers "than" to function like a preposition (just as you say "before me" but "before I do").
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