UnitedStates/StandardOfLiving

The nation with the highest living standard in human history.

Whoa, that's pretty darn far from a fact. The UN has been picking Canada, although its reasons are probably political, and as far as the poor are concerned it's probably some socialist country like Sweden. I don't actually know. I just know that you can't go around making such statements as if they aren't opinions.

- I looked that up recently and report from memory, but the details should be available in any almanac. - Tim

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I assume you are referring to the claim about the standard of living in the United States. I would politely take issue with the notion that one can simply look up a "fact" like that in an almanac.

As a counterpoint, it is worth pointing out that Canada has been ranked number one on the United Nations Human Development Index for about six years running. I would not claim that this means that Canada has the highest standard of living in the world, however.

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LarrySanger edited the above two paragraphs, doing his part to try to keep this wiki civil. :-)

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Yes, I believe one can look up per capita income in an almanac.

 - Tim