Where Exactly Is The Usa Now In Standard Of Living?

Where exactly does the USA stand now in standard of living, in relation to the rest of the world? What number are we?

I know 25 years ago, the last time the ("liberal") media divulged such facts, we were 6th. And I know ultra-socialist Sweden usually comes up on top.

But where are we now? And where to you (quickly/truthfully) find such information?

 

It would be difficult to tell, because a country's standard of living isn't just about averages, but also distributions. In the US, the average for stats such as household income would be high by international comparisons, but the poor suffer a lot more than they would in most other developed countries.

 

I live in Sweden. I know we came out on top in the 80´s we was number one then. It was though corruptly enpowered by the struggle against the evil spread of communism, so the previous uninteresting outposts, borders to the enemy, became superior. Same thing did the soviets and enpowered Cuba, and i guess you know about that old missile crisis. Forget those old morons, they were all clowns. What true standard of living do we got? Whats it measured by? Hardly inner peace and freedom, but materialism. Sweden is the freshest place ive seen in my life but i didnt see the world though. What did i see? Norway is like an outpost not even McDonalds would dare spend upon, they got roaches like you, i never saw a roach in my life though, until i married one and went to Ukraine to do it. There they have not renovated anything hardly, since the second world war, since communism ruled them till the fall of the Berlin wall. They didnt catch up by reason, but have epic products they make, and explicit cultural soil and temperatures for producing anything. Germany, a shell of a place, a sherade. It felt for me like a pretend place to be, the internet was never online, they made exeptions for me being there even, since i then needed it for founding the network of independent television channels in Europe. Denmark was all small and flat, and extremely useless to me in general. Well to cut it in short, i like the standards where i live, but i can adapt if needed.

What is your standard like?

 

So many even in the USA don't grasp this. While it may seem as though the poor here have a higher standard of living on the surface, most of them are 1 paycheck or 1 illness away from utter ruin. Without actual money it's hard to survive for very long in the US unless you want to join a homeless camp. And those are all over the place. Since so much of the east is covered with trees you don't see the sort of tent city the UN assembles for refugees. You see plastic sheeting, string and sticks holding it all up. You see people fighting over a cardboard sign and killing over a broken bottle of liquor.

Right now all of the government safety net programs are at their limit. There is no more money for new ones. Which is why the SNAP program had to be looted to retain teachers and implement Michelle's school lunch program. But this is not a new phenomenon either. Then system was just as bogged down when Ronnie Ray-Gun was raiding Medicaid and gas pumps to pay his buddies to develop useless guns in the sky. He solved the problem by signing millions of illegal aliens of all races into instant American taxpayers.

Which is why I feel sorry for people who sneak into the US. If they do become citizens, they are just as fucked as the rest of the Americans. Sure, it SEEMS like it's a better standard of living, but only because of trinkets. At the core the US system is a relentless juggernaut designed to whip a coin from every single one of us. And the ones hardest hit are those at the edge of poverty, REAL poverty. The real shame though is that the Americans know how fucked they are because the government educated them. It would be better to simply not know how dark the US can really get.

 

I watched a documentary today called 'Lost Angels' about the plight of the homeless, mentally ill and poor of Skid Row in Los Angeles. I have to agree with you. I don't think I would want to ever live in the US. The health care and welfare systems scare me. People are often just a missed pay check or a lost job away from total ruin. Where I am isn't perfect, but it's a damm sight better.

 

According to CNN, the US is 4th in average net worth, $300k, but only 19th in median net worth, $45k. The US has 42% of the world's millionaires which skewes the average up.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/11/news/economy/middle-class-wealth/

 

immigrants continue arriving daily.does anyone ever leave?

 

Leave? Why would anyone leave America? We have the BEST sluts in the world, they're a national treasure. People flock in from the rest of the planet to score with an American slut. God bless 'em!!

 

I value so many things that are impossible to measure.

 

Net worth has nothing to do with standard of living.

 

Well, it has something to do with standard of living. If the populace has no net worth, they aren't going to be able to afford good housing, education, healthcare, etc.

 

Yes but that isn't the net worth of the populace evenly distributed, so it means very little. If only a small percent of the country holds most of that money and the rest are still very poor, then the average standard of living could still be much lower.

 

If only a small % holds most of the net worth, the average can still be very high, but the median relatively low, such as is the case in the US.

 

It seems in some areas the USA is still in the top 10 with their standard of living and can be designated a 3rd world status in other departments. It also seems to all depend on where in the states you look.

 

Numbers don't reflect the fact that a lot of people (like me) would rather be middle class or upper middle class in a beautiful, safe, comfortable place than be rich in a shit location. How do you measure that? If I could make ten times as much money but had to spend all my time in Chicago or Detroit, I'd feel like the quality of my life had gone down.

 

Perhaps with the GNH :-D:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness

 

Housing, food and gasoline are way too high here in San Diego. Although a nice place to live, still too expensive.

 

Yes, that's my point. Because of that fact, net worth has very little to do with average quality of life.

 

Average net worth has very little to do with... ,but the relatively low median net worth is significant.

 

But that isn't the statistic you posted