Replaced by what exactly? The US has one of the highest median incomes in the world adjusted for cost of living: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incomes-ac

Replaced by what exactly? The US has one of the highest median incomes in the world adjusted for cost of living: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incomes-across-distribution-wb https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incomes-across-distributi... The fraction of the US population living on $30 or less per day is comparable to Sweden: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/poverty-share-on-less-than-30-per-day https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/poverty-share-on-less-tha... Our education system also looks pretty good in international comparisons: https://xcancel.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1732087511327908128 https://xcancel.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/17320875113279081... News focuses on the negatives, but we're doing reasonably well in absolute terms. Big random changes are likely to cause regression to the international mean, which is generally below the US on most metrics.