It's The Fourth of July, and Britain Is Poor
We have left the United Kingdom in the economic dust. Every single state in these United States has a higher median household income than the United Kingdom. 247 years after we declared independence, the UK has similar wealth to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It's a nice town, but that is deeply embarrassing for a nation that once ruled a fourth of the world. This sucks, guys. There are several states in this country that are punchlines. Those states are still richer than the United Kingdom. The median home in Washington D.C, a city known not long ago for crippling poverty and decline, makes twice as much as the UK's median household. Not a single postcode area in the United Kingdom can claim that. And Washington is far from the richest place in America. Parts of this country, mostly in the South, are poorer than the United Kingdom. But there are also counties where the median household income is three times that of the UK. Nearly every major city has an outlying county or two wit