That doesn’t directly correlate to how well being is indexed though.

To be clear - I’m not arguing about income distribution problems that obviously exist. I’m arguing against this notion that life in the US is as bad as people argue it is, given its existing imperfections. People talk about how the US sucks at X and Y, yet the aggregate well being of the total population, which weighs each individual equally, is on par with the countries people hold as the standard. More people are doing alright here than social medias like Reddit indicate. Doesn’t mean improvements can’t be made on our imperfect system. But life here is not some hell hole