Most Americans vastly underestimate how rich they are compared with the rest of the world. Does it matter?

The Washington Post reported last week that the Trump regime could freeze its $ 3 billion external assistance approved by Congress. Foreign aid is one of the least popular government programs in the United States, one of the few Federal programs among a small number of Americans.

So here is an American. The most basic living infrastructure has become luxurious for the general Americans, and in other wealthy countries the higher standard of living will be cheaper every year. This is what a failed social contract means. And since it has never had an effective social contract, there is no real choice in America, it can only collapse. A society that does not have a social contract is empty and waits for cracking. Democracy, economics, and politics will fail. Because people give up these three, and in any case must pay basic elements that can not bear regardless of whether it is for strong people, religion, self-help, guns or opioids .

There is no need to overlook it. What other wealthy countries are not doing in the United States? Any wealthy country in the world, including public health, transportation, education, etc., has a complex and extensive vast public good that has been improved throughout the year. Today, even in many middle - income countries even poor countries are building public health, transportation and so on. It is only the United States that has never developed before. Public goods protect society in a profound, profound and intangible way (do this).

The solution adopted by other members of FE World is powerful public media. Americans believe that public media is a strange, meaningless, boring postfix. But in most wealthy countries, this is the majority of media consumed by people. Just like eating healthy nutritious food and candied junk food, it makes these countries better, persistent, broad and very important. Society with public media has stronger democracy. Such a society has better information, the possibility of voting is high, and the citizen is involved. Society with public media has a higher level of confidence and happiness, lower loneliness, anger and despair. Their extremism and intolerance are low