[mynameisvlad]

How, exactly, are you supposed to compare if not to other countries? There’s no bar for “this is what a developed country’s internet should look like” so the only way to compare is to do it against other countries roughly in the same range as the US.

It’s also entirely factual to say that in comparison to other developed countries, the US lags in internet.

[umanwizard]

If the US is significantly behind developed countries in practically every category, why do you consider it a developed country? What does “developed” mean?

> other countries roughly in the same range as the US.

The same range of what variable? How do you measure/define this?

[mynameisvlad]

There are several definitions for what makes a country “developed” and the US is solidly in all of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country

I’m not sure how you can possibly argue that the US is not “developed”.

> The same range of what variable? How do you measure/define this?

Feel free to take any of those lists and compare the US to countries around them in those lists. The countries might differ slightly, but the notion of what is a “developed” country has been firmly established for a long time now.

[umanwizard]

> I’m not sure how you can possibly argue that the US is not “developed”.

The U.S. is considered developed only because it’s extremely rich. However, the general state of its infrastructure, education, governance, media, etc. is more typical of a developing country in many ways.

That’s my point: all these lists of things the U.S. is worse at than every developed country are collectively what it means to be developed, more so in my mind than just being rich.

[trimethylpurine]

only because it’s extremely rich

Wtf!? Yes!

Now I'm curious what you thought developed means.

[trimethylpurine]

You compare cities, since you need to include average income.