Americans even in the middle are so much richer than even our "rich world" peers they don't even realize it.

If the UK was a state, it would be poorer than.. Mississippi on a per-capita income basis.

Note UK itself is incredibly unequal, so if you remove London from the UK the per-capita is far far worse than Mississippi.

Now thats before we even get into our continental friends like France, Spain, Italy, etc.

The issue though it’s very tricky to compare these things. We have very high wealth inequality, and very low house affordability and complicated medical insurance. This all contributes to lower quality of life in the end. And what’s even more important Americans now live worse than Americans in 90s. And this is a problem, and globalism might played some role in it.