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by nlavezzo 61 days ago
All true. But also GDP, science and innovation, and charitable giving - both overall and per capita.
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>GDP

Without question, but despite leading on GDP the USA lags behind in so many other key areas. It's astounding to those of us non-Americans that you can spend 30 Billion on the Iran war but you have elementary school children who are accruing "lunch debt" because they can't afford to pay for meals at school.

Life in America seems so needlessly cruel.

>science and innovation

Not for long. The damage is already done, and America will cease to lead in this area in my lifetime, likely to never recover.