Nearly all of the ones ahead of the USA are clearly city-states or oil/gas sources. Both are unreasonable comparisons. The city-states could properly be compared with Manhattan. The oil/gas sources may have a high GDP, but the typical people tend to be in poverty. Ireland and Switzerland are the only clear exceptions, and both are rather small countries. Norway is an oil/gas source, but might also be an exception because things are run a bit better than they are in the typical oil/gas source.

Pretty disingenuous to say GDP when you mean GDP PPP.

The US does have the highest GDP (by a large margin).

Fine by me, but it's meaningless since it's not adjusted. And anyway, still not the case

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...

You're really not very good at this.

GDP per capita is not the same as GDP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

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To remind you, it's a post about working in another country, the GDP makes even less sense in this context if you don't put it per capita.

You were presumably responding to "America is the most rich and powerful country in the world", since that is the only relevant portion of the comment you replied to where interjecting a comment about GDP would make any sense at all.

The US, as a nation, has the highest GDP, and therefore is the wealthiest nation in the world. The individual wealth of Americans is lower than some other countries (but not many), but that is hardly relevant in a discussion about the wealthiest country. If OC had said "Americans are the richest people in the world", you would be right. But OC did not, and being deliberately obtuse does not change that.

I'm gonna stop answering because you're being misleading on purpose, but you can't say the USA is the richest because people in other countries are laid back worker when the GDP per capita is lower than the other mentionned country. It means that there's just more people but that they are quite "less productive" (i personnaly think that's it's a stupid way to judge people productivity though, i just responded to this comment because the author belief was wrong)

> you're being misleading on purpose

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