"America Is Now a ‘Second Tier’ Country" - Bloomberg
"The authors note that wealth is no guarantee to first-tier access. Even among nations with similar GDP, “countries achieve widely divergent levels of social progress.” It’s true a little bit of economic growth goes a long way toward improving lives, but those gains taper off at more mature stages of development."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/america-is-now-a-second-tier-country