Even per capita is stupid. In the US, 500 people have everything, and it skews the average even still. If you go and cut the top 2% off and re-average, the US wouldn’t even be in the top 50.
Absolutely… no measurement that doesn’t calculate an index on a per capita basis can be taken seriously.
Meanwhile, noone mentions that the USA has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the so-called free world, and they call themselves “Land of the Free”. The constant propaganda has completely disconnected Americans from reality.
By calling the US the richest country in the world, in a post that shows that the US isn’t doing too hot on certain other metrics, it’s a clear message that the richness of a country isn’t enough, in itself. It’s intentional use of irony.
I wish people would stop spreading tropes like these. While the USA as a whole has the highest GDP globally there are better ways of measuring how rich a country is.
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Any measure to compare the wealth of nations is shit compared to the only metric that matters: happiness
Pretty sure nordic countries would have the richest citizens in the world
Happiness can vary greatly even within a country. But there’s a yearly ranking of the happiest city in the world, and it’s almost always Vienna, fwiw
The real treasure is the friends we made along the way.
Yah, the Ireland one doesn’t pass the sniff test.
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Even per capita is stupid. In the US, 500 people have everything, and it skews the average even still. If you go and cut the top 2% off and re-average, the US wouldn’t even be in the top 50.
Absolutely… no measurement that doesn’t calculate an index on a per capita basis can be taken seriously. Meanwhile, noone mentions that the USA has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the so-called free world, and they call themselves “Land of the Free”. The constant propaganda has completely disconnected Americans from reality.
If we weren’t so rich, we couldn’t afford to imprison so much of our population!
But think of the prison stocks’ shareholders!
(yes, this is real. For-profit prisons)
…isn’t that the whole point that OP is making?
By calling the US the richest country in the world, in a post that shows that the US isn’t doing too hot on certain other metrics, it’s a clear message that the richness of a country isn’t enough, in itself. It’s intentional use of irony.