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They're not mutually exclusive.
The average American thinks the USA is the greatest nation on the planet and that Americans are the most fortunate people on the planet. You're expressing internalized propaganda. Living in poverty in the USA is not better than living in poverty anywhere else, and is in fact a lot worse due to lack of infrastructure, crushing wealth disparity of historic magnitude, and the absolute abandonment of socialism. A poor person in a socialist country still has all their needs met. A poor person in the USA is an object lesson who is made to suffer hunger, homelessness, and lack of medical care to keep the rest of the workers in line.
You're living in a fantasy.
Recognizing that being impoverished in a prosperous and developed country is better than being impoverished in an economically struggling country is not propaganda. America is not the best place to be poor, but it isn't the worst, and the self-pitying idea that being poor in the US is as bad as or worse than being poor in any country is some utterly ignorant shite.
Do you really know nothing about living standards in Cuba?
How ironic.
If you're incapable of utilising the massive amount of capital residing in the USA, then I assume you're an imbecile.
The country is a tax haven. Vast amount of opportunities.
Do I like my country more? Of course I do, but god damn I'm getting sick and tired of all these Americans thinking their country is bad.
You're with 230 million adults in a country the size of Europe. Of course it's gonna be spread out.
Median net wealth in the EU is lower than in USA (77k Vs 112k USD). PPP it's about the same.
Europe's for people who prefer stability. USA is for people that prefer volatile growth and crashes.