Re: America vs the rest of the world
You have a point, but the US is also the place where you can work two full-time jobs and still not be able to adequately support your family. Where we have only a fraction of the vacation time of other industrialized countries. Sure, we make more money on average than other countries, but are we really happier and better off because of it? Other countries have different attitudes--it's not GDP uber alles. Americans on the whole are some of the most miserable in the industrialized world. Obviously a developing country is going to compare unfavorably in every way, but maybe equating money with value (in the general sense of the word) is not necessarily a positive thing.
For the record, I don't hate the US and I think it would be hard for anyone not to include it on a list of their top 5 or 10 countries.
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