The United States is (1) a great country — maybe the best — in which to GET rich, (2) an excellent country in which to BE rich, but (3) an alarming country in which to be merely affluent, and (4) a downright awful place in which to be poor. https://t.co/tHsbxFbNcy

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) May 19, 2023

This is dead on. Everyone not rich would be better off somewhere else in the Western world because of the reigning precarity of life in America.