” He doesn’t understand that PRICES AND SALARIES ARE LOWER IN EVERY LESS PROSPEROUS NATION ON THIS EARTH. “
This is why comparing GDP is nonsense.
If Groceries cost 4x in the USA.
Gasoline costs 1.5x
Natural gas costs 6x
Electricity costs 2.5x
The basic living costs for ordinary people are far less. So 4x “per capita GDP” doesn’t actually buy anything more.
And we see this on the military side even more, where the typical munitions price for the USA is 10x. (because the MIC is even more inflationary and wasteful than the rest of the economy).
And that doesn’t even impute a value to squalid, filthy cities with unpoliced criminal blacks, and a non-white invasion deliberately created by a failing elite.
comparison for lots of different energy prices by country
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/
The usa is only a first world country on paper.
Not really. Gas and electricity are quite cheaper than e.g. in Europe. Even the food is not that expensive.
Lots of electronics stuff is actually a real bargain here!
As far as food -
Do not look at the prices of you brand food. Compare prices of generic low quality food to the food in many poor countries.
Even in America, you can spend a lot less on groceries if you buy them in dollar store, Big Lots, dirty stores in you know what neighborhoods or bargain store brands, and similar.
You do not do it, since you can afford the better stuff.
People in poor countries are stuck to that kind of food. Often old, expired, dirty and infected.
E.g. when stuff is nearing expiration date in US stores, they take them off and send to Haiti or Mexico. By the time, these make it to shelves, they are technically expired. But people there will jump on them.
Cheap medications in Mexico, that US people are traveling to get from there, are usually expired and re-labeled pills which would have to be discarded in US.
Think about that!
I visited Ukraine in 2016 and 2017:
Gasoline was more expensive - over $4 per gallon - at the time USA price was maybe $2?
Grocery store prices were lower.
Restaurants even lower compared to USA.