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I suspect the survey results will change drastically if each person was shown this table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_inco

• defrost 3y ago
  The US might have higher disposable income but there are less benefits to go with that. I'll stick with the health care, education, paid vacation and sick leave, lower crime rates, lower incarceration rates, zero school shootings, etc.
• andrelaszlo 3y ago
  The difference is much smaller if you look at the median disposable income instead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income#Median_equivalent_adult_income https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per... The big skewness (difference between the mean and the median) suggests that a lot of wealth is concentrated at the top and that many people are in fact worse off than Europeans.