To your last point, America is also so large and diverse it's going to be hard to come up with too many sweeping conclusions from data like this. There's alway

To your last point, America is also so large and diverse it's going to be hard to come up with too many sweeping conclusions from data like this. There's always going to be a few success stories about individualism but that doesn't help the median person who is just making ends meet, barely, and the homelessness issue that is worse in America than probably anywhere on earth especially given our cumulative wealth. The UN does have a happiness measure for what it's worth, it's probably better for smaller more homogenous countries. It interesting to compare what the UN study measures versus the American only one here. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/finland-happiest-country-world-un-report https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/finland-happie...