Joseph Stiglitz : The end of neoliberalism and the rebirth of history

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35. No, WE are not doing OK

The positives you list are mostly not related to the issues brought up by the article. Much of the improvement overall in the world in some of those stats is due to shipping jobs overseas from America. You can argue that this is good for the rest of the world but you also have to include the devastating effects on the working class in this country.

There are many other data points you also have to ignore in order to claim that we are doing ok, such as suicides being up 33 percent since 1999 and at their highest rate since WWWII: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/health/suicide-rates-nchs-study/index.html

Or, that 80 million Americans are having troube paying off medical debt or that the top 20% of Americans own 86% of the country's wealth and the bottom 80% own 14%. There are many other such stats to choose from. You can cherry pick numbers all you want but to say we are doing ok is wrong for so many people and diverts from the very real problem of wealth inequality and its many effects.One of which is that those worlwide stats you cite will eventually change for the worse if we stick to the neoliberal model.

None of which includes the effects on the environment by our current system of top down economic rule.