America is now a 2nd tier country

[JosephDredd]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/america-is-now-a-second-tier-country

Some 17 others, including all of Scandinavia, outperform the U.S. by a wide margin when it comes to well-being.

The results of the group’s annual survey, which ranks nations based on 50 metrics, call to mind other reviews of national well-being, such as the World Happiness Report released in March, which was led by Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, or September’s Lancet study on sustainable development. In that one, Iceland, Singapore, Sweden, and the U.S. took spots 1, 2, 3, and 28—respectively.

SPI produces the report in part to help city, state, and national policymakers diagnose and (ideally) address their most pressing challenges. The group’s chief executive, Michael Green, said America “is failing to address basic human needs, equip citizens to improve their quality of life, protect the environment, and provide opportunity for everyone to make personal choices and reach their full potential.”

As a result, the U.S. is ranked as a second-tier nation within the multilevel structure of the Social Progress Index 2017 report, which comes complete with interactive graphics. Second-tier countries demonstrate “high social progress” on core issues, such as nutrition, water, and sanitation. However, they lag the first-tier, “very high social progress” nations when it comes to social unity and civic issues. That more or less re

I was surprised to see America's ranked as high as 28 when measuring the happiness of its citizens.

In economic overlap, this correlates with the studies out of major American universities showing that the American dream is basically dead and opportunities for upward mobility have diminished radically in the last thirty years.

 

[mrbaapt]

Seems about right.

 

[VivaRevolution]

Happiness?

How about infrastructure.........

 

[hitcher]

Now?

 

[dragonsfly]

I have lived in Denmark. I can confirm this. They are far more advanced in well-being and more advanced society. The countries that are surprisingly ahead of everybody is Denmark, Swedan, Norway, Finland, Switerzland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Dubai, Qatar, Singapore, Bahrain, Kuwait, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand. This is my personal opinion ofcourse and the countries I found to be advanced when it comes to life and harmony and systems.

The issues with the US is to much competition and over population. Its truly chaos compared to these countries. The Crime rate and homicide rate is ridiculously high for a country that is not in war. Hack there is more homicide in the US then in countries that are in active war

 

[mrbaapt]

I have lived in Denmark. I can confirm this. They are far more advanced in well-being and more advanced society. The countries that are surprisingly ahead of everybody is Denmark, Swedan, Norway, Finland, Switerzland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Dubai, Qatar, Singapore, Bahrain, Kuwait, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand. This is my personal opinion ofcourse and the countries I found to be advanced when it comes to life and harmony and systems.

The issues with the US is to much competition and over population

Nope.

 

[dragonsfly]

Nope.

Have you been to these places before? I don't think so. If you have then you would have automatically agreed

 

[mrbaapt]

Have you been to these places before? I don't think so. If you have then you would have automatically agreed

I've been to Qatar and Dubai. Neither are places I would rank high on any list of positive attributes.

 

[dragonsfly]

I've been to Qatar and Dubai. Neither are places I would rank high on any list of positive attributes.

These places have already entered the future when it comes to infrastructure. From 15-20 yrs from today these places could look like something taken from Sci-fi movie

 

[Pwent]

this gets posted every year, but it ranks countries on a vague "social progress" metrics, where it is debatable whether its progress. so its not an absolute "which country is better", its a "which country is closest to the ideal set forth by the people who make the contest"

-tolerance for homosexuals
-early marriage

also subjective metrics
-religious tolerance
-tolerance for immigrants

etc.

as a counterexample, i could make a "progress towards Trump's ideal country" where America wins 1st every year

or argue about tolerance for immigrants, as america is ranked 16th in "tolerance for immigrants" despite having the largest foreign born population in the world

etc

 

[cincymma79]

I've been to Qatar and Dubai. Neither are places I would rank high on any list of positive attributes.

Like you wouldn't want slaves. I bet they don't poll Jose guys though

 

[Handsomebwonderfull]

Have you been to these places before? I don't think so. If you have then you would have automatically agreed

https://hubpages.com/living/The-difference-between-European-flats-and-American-apartments

i've been to europe quite a bit

europe is "culture rich" but poor as shit otherwise

nice try

 

[Handsomebwonderfull]

These places have already entered the future when it comes to infrastructure. From 15-20 yrs from today these places could look like something taken from Sci-fi movie

hahahaha....

that's retarded. you should feel bad.

 

[mrbaapt]

These places have already entered the future when it comes to infrastructure. From 15-20 yrs from today these places could look like something taken from Sci-fi movie

Built by imported Indian and Filipino slaves. Qatar doesn't even have water, they have to import water also lol.

 

[dragonsfly]

Built by imported Indian and Filipino slaves. Qatar doesn't even have water, they have to import water also lol.

I was only refering to the lavish life and infrastructure. The rest irrelevant in this subject.

ppl have dogs as pet here but there it's Lions, tigers and chetah.. spotting someone with these exotic animals is normal in the public.

You will never spot a old car on the road in Doha and dubai in fact it's normal seeing Ferraris, Bentleys etc etc.

living a lavish life style is considered normal life there

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

this gets posted every year, but it ranks countries on a vague "social progress" metrics, where it is debatable whether its progress. so its not an absolute "which country is better", its a "which country is closest to the ideal set forth by the people who make the contest"

-tolerance for homosexuals
-early marriage

also subjective metrics
-religious tolerance
-tolerance for immigrants

etc.

as a counterexample, i could make a "progress towards Trump's ideal country" where America wins 1st every year

or argue about tolerance for immigrants, as america is ranked 16th in "tolerance for immigrants" despite having the largest foreign born population in the world

etc

LOL

Nahh Murrka is just a second world country. No vacation, free college, health care, paid maternity leave, etc.

But that zhit is all Communist right? So why would you want to be a Communist first-world developed nation bro?

 

[bobgeese]

Oh, ok...

 

[Pwent]

LOL

Nahh Murrka is just a second world country. No vacation, free college, health care, paid maternity leave, etc.

But that zhit is all Communist right? So why would you want to be a Communist first-world developed nation bro?

it sounds like you dont know what "first world" and "second world" mean

that is a cold war term, with "first world" being america and its capitalist allies, "second world" being the soviets and their communist/socialist allies and "third world" being countries on neither side (usually their economy was too small to of any significance)

so by definition, america cannot be 2nd world and those socialist policies would be more 2nd world regardless of how you feel about their efficiency

you would know that if you had an american education

you might also know that things exist without being supplied by the government. you would know that vacations and healthcare exist in america, without the government supplying it, WOW!

 

[Lord_Impaler]

Lol, "Social Progress Index"....

So did they count "tolerance towards immigrants" as a positive or negative for Germany?

 

[PainIsLIfe]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/america-is-now-a-second-tier-country







I was surprised to see America's ranked as high as 28 when measuring the happiness of its citizens.

In economic overlap, this correlates with the studies out of major American universities showing that the American dream is basically dead and opportunities for upward mobility have diminished radically in the last thirty years.

I don't want to call BS, but BS. Some odd numbers that drop the US rating really stick out:

-The US is ranked 54th for freedom of religion???

-92nd for religious tolerance???

-53rd for primary school enrollment (it's the law that everyone goes to primary school)

-65th Freedom over life choices (I suppose if we legalize heroine that # would go up)

-40th because of traffic deaths (well duh - everyone drives in the US)

-30th for access to piped water while Germany is ranked #1 (when I was there a few years ago, all of Germany was drinking from wells)

-32nd for political rights

-17th for personal property rights

-32nd for early marriage (You'd think a social progress index would be more tolerant of peoples personal choice of when to marry)

-73rd Biodiversity (You've got to be kidding me)