{"id":6361,"date":"2024-02-18T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2024-02-18T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T10:58:48","slug":"the-usa-isnt-the-best-country-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6361","title":{"rendered":"The USA Isn’t The Best Country In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nobody likes to hear their country isn’t the best country in the world – especially when said by a filthy foreigner. But the USA isn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The USA is ranked 59th by life expectancy<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The USA is ranked 7th by GDP per capita<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The USA is ranked 123rd by pregnancy mortality ratio<\/a> (there are 180-odd positions and the lowest rate is best).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The USA is ranked 12th by the World Freedom Index<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I could go on, and probably there’s a metric out there where the USA is #1. But I doubt reeling off metrics showing the USA isn’t the best is going to convince many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But here’s another reason. Assuming your country is the best leads to complacency, which eventually leads it it not being the best country in the world. So even if your country is<\/em> the best country in the world, pretend it isn’t and always strive to make it better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Nobody likes to hear their country isn’t the best country in the world – especially when said by a filthy foreigner. But the USA isn’t. I could go on, and probably there’s a metric out there where the USA is #1. But I doubt reeling off metrics showing the USA isn’t the best is going […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[2207,27],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-best-country","tag-usa","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@grumpygrimnir\/111952128822045906","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1EB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}