The United States may be the most prosperous depending on how you define that, but it's not any of the other three. To call it those is to blatantly ignore othe

The United States may be the most prosperous depending on how you define that, but it's not any of the other three. To call it those is to blatantly ignore other countries doing certain things better than the United States. Furthermore, I'd argue that since the prosperity is concentrated to a greater extent in the United States than in other countries, that that prosperity is mostly illusory for the majority of the population. Not the freest (press, 46th): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index#Rankings_and_scores_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index#Rankings_a... Not the healthiest (5th): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2014_report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2014_r... Not the safest: (108th lowest intentional homicide rate, 2nd most incarcerated nation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...