I think this distills the crux of the equivocation inherent to this kind of reasoning Being "the number 1 economy in the world" (Actually kind of debatable by

I think this distills the crux of the equivocation inherent to this kind of reasoning Being "the number 1 economy in the world" (Actually kind of debatable by some metrics, but that's beside the point) is a measure of the power of the few that hold it, not the general living conditions of the populace. "Society-wide benefits" being the same as having the richest aggregate economy is to say the least pretty dubious