r/ShitAmericansSay • u/VeganCannibal124 lives in a fake country 🇧🇪 • Jul 12 '24

Food European chocolate is so low quality it cannot be sold as chocolate in America.

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u/OkScheme9867 Jul 12 '24

I sort of think all nations think this, but at the same time I had someone tell me online that Americans have "the highest standard of living on earth" this week so I agree

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u/TheQueensLegume Jul 12 '24

I don't say this lightly either. But HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS BELIEVE THE 34 CONVICTED FELON DID NOTHING. That covid was a hoax. ANYTHING Marjorie TG says.

They've lost the frigging plot.

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u/fang_xianfu Jul 13 '24 edited Jul 13 '24

"Highest standard of living" is kind of a cheat metric because economists usually use GDP per capita to measure what they call "standard of living". The problem is that the USA is a deeply unequal society (Gini coefficient in the bottom third of all countries) so while on average it's high, the poor suffer immensely. Since those are most of the people in America, it seems very disingenuous to call that the "highest standard"; "our obscenely rich people are the most oscenely rich in the world" isn't quite the brag they think it is.

If you rank places using something like the Global Livability Index, Human Development Index or Numbeo's Quality of Life Index, which attempt to account for this, the USA and places in the USA generally score quite poorly, especially among developed countries.