It's interesting to me that you perceive the US getting a bad evaluation as some sort of deliberate smear against America. If that were the case, you would expe

It's interesting to me that you perceive the US getting a bad evaluation as some sort of deliberate smear against America. If that were the case, you would expect to see the US mentioned in some detail in the actual report [1]. It's not; they primarily focus on labour violations in the developing world. The rating the US gets is pretty incidental. While it's easy to see life in the US as awesome from our perspective, we work in tech. The median US income is about $40,000, and the lower quartile is $22,000 [2]. Fully a quarter of Americans live in the $0-$22,000 income bracket, and another quarter live in $22,000-$40,000. > But IMO the solution might really be to keep working at extending the awesome to the rest of the people. Then surely workers' rights are exactly what we should be discussing, right? Labour activism is what drives wages up in profitable industries. How is it "anti-American" to discuss problems which we're trying to solve -- if anything, it's pro-American, since it's part of an effort to improve America. [1]: https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ituc_globalrightsindex_2020_en.pdf https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ituc_globalrightsindex_2020... [2]: https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-individual-income-percentiles/ https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-individual-income-perce...