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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle
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We should have the highest standard of living then, yes? Perhaps be the healthiest and most educated society in the world, right? What with all our power and wealth and the inherent greatness of our citizenry, shouldn't we be living as well as fucking Norwegians, for Christ's sake? NORWEGIANS.
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Norway's population is 5,000,000. They had one motherfucker go insane and start shooting kids and it took them 90 minutes to bring him down. It's a totally different country with a totally different role within the world.
The US population is almost 310,000,000. It's not possible to micromanage the standard of living for everyone the way a nation like Norway can. And anyway, that has never been the US's stated goal. The US's goal has always been to provide equality of opportunity, not equality of results. Whether or not they've been successful, it's a different mindset entirely.