Quote Originally Posted by Doucas View Post
GDP means nothing is wealth inequality is sky rocketing. Do you honestly believe we have the 5th highest standard of living in the world?
Various Quality of Life measurements have us much lower than 5th.

20th here.
https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-li...by_country.jsp

The UN has us ranked 18th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...elopment_Index

28th here. Although this one includes some micro nations so they skew the results a bit.
https://www.worlddata.info/quality-o...rity=10#ranges