Exceptionalist ideology (America’s basis in individual freedom makes it
different and better than ethnically based societies) is so powerful
that few Americans are aware that their society leads the developed
world in virtually all social pathologies and inefficiencies — in many
cases by a wide margin and in many cases lagging behind developing
nations. Because of its unbalanced power structure, the United States
leads in income and wealth inequality, inequalities that exist both
before and after taxes and after taking demography and government
transfers into account. America has the developed world’s highest rates
of elderly, adult, child, and deep poverty, the poorest record in worker
rights, and has a longer work week.
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