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  This is not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that the quality of life in America is worse than in other similarly rich countries.
  Yes, Americans live better than Brazilians, or Mexicans, or Nigerians, or Indians, but these countries are way way poorer than America.
  America should be compared to countries that are similarly rich, like Canada, Australia, the UK, or Germany. All of these have similar median income and GDP per capita (In fact, they are still poorer in these regards than America), and outperform America in pretty much all quality of life aspects.
context: I have a feeling that this 10th place is a result of American statistics being inflated by high average income.
  In case of Education, America ranks 19/41 in regards to student skills, 28/39 in social inequality and 30/39 in gender inequality. Overall Education score is pretty bad. 
  In Health, it ranked 29/41 in life expectancy, which is pretty bad, and its overall rank in Health is inflated by the really high self reported health. Second highest in the world, which is questionable when you remember both the life expectancy and obesity statistics. 
  And America straight up scores badly in Work and Life Balance and Safety Categories, being close to the bottom in both of these. It's 36/41 in homicide rates and 29/41 in both working hours and leisure time
  Many categories are either average or bad, with the exception of Income, Jobs and Housing, which are all related to wealth. In these America scores near the top. 
  So once again it seems that Americans are wealthy, yet in most non-money related categories America is scoring badly when compared to other rich nations. >
  
  Yes, American statistics are "inflated" by having high median income and standard of living. >
  
  My point being: if America scores number 1 in income and number 3 in wealth, but also scores 29/41 in life expectancy, 29/41 in hours worked and leisure time, 19/41 in student skills, 36/41 in homicide rate, and scores near the bottom on inequality in almost every category(34/35 in Civic Engagement, 28/39 in Education, 31/32 in Income)
  Then doesn’t it point to the fact that America has a pretty low quality of life for an average person, but it’s overall score is inflated by the very high income and wealth? 
  Which would support my original point: That America is richer than other rich countries, yet Americans have lower quality of life than people in other rich countries. >
  
  Is quality of life only measured in those criteria? What about general happiness, social cohesion etc? Do you want people here to share other metrics or do you only want to go by your limited list as in your post? >
  
  Happiness is a very hard to measure concept, there is no objective metric to measure how someone feels, as feeling are subjective. 
  We can look at suicide rates, where America scores worse than all other rich nations with 14.5 suicides per 100k people. Compared to 12.2 in Japan, 10.3 in Canada or 6.9 in the UK. Although it is also not a perfect metric. But it does appear that Americans are more likely to commit suicide, which doesn’t paint a great picture of happiness in the country. >
  
  Even in this ranking the US is close to the top, with countries ahead of it infamously having high sucide rates due to serious social issues and terrible working conditions. (Japan/South Korea)
  All other countries on this list, other than Belgium, are much poorer than America. 
  The GDP per capita of Hungary is $18.7k, for Slovenia it's $29k. For Belgium it's $51.7k and for America it's $69.2k
  So depending on the source, America is either the worst of rich countries, or one of the worst. So it's not a big upgrade. >
  
  So close to the top, but not at the top, per your comment. Also, let’s qualify what you consider the rich countries you’re using here. What’s the GDP cutoff? >
  
  Close to the top still means that it does worse than most other similar countries. 
  I would say countries with GDP per capita of $40k-$50k and over are the best comparison. Below that there are countries with less than half of America's GDP per capita. And when one person is twice as rich as another person, it's hard to exactly call them "similarly wealthy" >
  
  Ok. Taking your midpoint of $45k, that’s about 20 or so countries representing about 2 percent of the global population. So arguing that the average standard of living for someone in the US is at the bottom of the top 2 percent globally isn’t all that strong of a point.