Still plenty rich in comparison to the rest of the world while providing richer lives to common people than most places in the USA can provide to their citizens

Still plenty rich in comparison to the rest of the world while providing richer lives to common people than most places in the USA can provide to their citizens. Leaning on GDP as this all-encompassing metric is rather absurd, GDP was adopted because it's an easy metric to calculate, not because it provides the most insights on how life is at some place on Earth.