For income. That ignores wealth inequality and living expenses.

That and living expenses make a huge difference especially at the lower levels.

This chart ignores wealth inequality, which is a wildly different statistic and more closely tied to class stratification and class mobility.

It also ignores the absurd distribution taht is a vast majority of americans have less than one hundred thousand in assets while a select few literally possess 1 Billion times as much power.

This chart is literal propaganda to. Look at the website.

The brain drain is a dangerous game. It means we need to keep offering tax writeoffs to corporations, who already pay disproportionally small taxes, and it means that if we lag behind the cutting edge for a moment, the bubble collapses.

The US is a big place. Most of our public schools are rather poor in all the metrics that matter. It's a patchwork of infrastructure that prioritizes wealth. Most of the US's systems, for low-income individuals, undermines success and embroil them in debt and incarceration, systems that empower the wealthy.

Look at cancer alley. Look at Flint Michigan. Look at overpolicing in communities of color by white officers. Look at the crumbling rail systems that keep getting sidelined in favor of car infrastructure despite the objective efficiencies in a rail economy.

For some it really is comparable to a third world country. That's not to say we are or aren't, because again the place is huge.