There is no good way to measure quality of life. Honest measures of Norway and the US (picking two "rich countries" at random) will have a lot of "it depends" and error bars and in the end concluding they are statistically equal.

If your information doesn't have those error bars it is just a feel good headline to make someone feel better about themselves by putting others down - this is EVIL and you shouldn't fall for it!

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Zigurd 12 hours ago | parent [-]

There are at least four widely accepted measures of quality of life, and the US ranks at the bottom of the top 10 of one of them. Are you really sure that you're smarter than all the economist and sociologists who put those measures together? Or maybe we've screwed it up and needs to purge a lot of poison from our system.

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bluGill 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't have to know anything about them to tell you they are worthless poison that should be purged. Well is is possible that they are useful for some niche and should never be taken outside of that narrow context.

There are far too many subjective parts of quality of life to ever put a single ranking on them.

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throw-the-towel 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Did you just claim being at the bottom of the top 10 countries in the entire world is bad?

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Zigurd 8 hours ago | parent [-]

If you're trying to prevent a brain drain to Europe, and your quality of life is poorer than in Europe, that's bad.

	▲	bluGill 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Top 10 isn't bad. There are roughly 30 countries (a debatable number) with really great quality of life. The difference between 1 and 30 is not very great. The bottom of the list is really bad. The top is all really good