Even so, putting on Rawl's Veil of Ignorance, if you were in the bottom America, would you choose to be in a lottery that would place you, randomly, in another situation? Sure, you might end up a living in a chalet in the Swiss Alps, but it's a lot more likely you'd be in the global south toiling just to survive day to day.

I guess I might be often missing the part that like even if you're the poorest here, like you're technically still richer and have better qol that many other jurisdictions. Reminds me of Dracula where he's in the shitty ghetto apartment that is depressing af and he's beaming like "Kings never knew such luxury"

Still though particularly in places like Appalachia or rougher cities, its terrifying. America is realky liberty or death with few in-betweens

US still has 2nd highest murder rate and highest incarceration, so just statistically, absolutely ANYWHERE BUT America if you are at the bottom, US is great for the middle and upper classes.

Thats kinda what I was obliquely referring to originally

If I sort this table by rate, US is 53rd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

If I sort this table by rate (and exclude a small territory), the US is 5th: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...