[MrSkelter]

The whole premise of this rebuttal is wrong in a self serving way.

Purchasing power and income are meaningless without accounting for what needs to be bought.

Americans can make high incomes for decades only to be bank d by medical debt. Having to own a car per household member can add thousands to monthly outgoings and is common in many places. Even schooling, which should be free, isn’t when sports cost thousands per year and parents are required to furnish their kids classrooms with books, pens and paper.

I am a US/European dual citizen. American wealth is an illusion. Average Northern Europeans are much better off in real terms.