Reply #17: Comparing the U.S. the developing nations is like comparing apples to lawn mowers. [View All]

That's why the comparison between other western-industrialized pro-capitalist nations is so compelling. It's fair.

Incidentally, if you visit the link, you'll see some of the source information is from the Economic Policy Institute's bi-annual State of Working American report, which includes a section on international comparisons. What's compelling is that much of the data is from the U.S. Governments own reporting - meaning even our own government says this is true. Further, if you review the methodology, you'll see that measures we taken to adjust for variances in calculations from different countries, normalizing values.

In other worse - is about as accurate a picture as you can get. And its ugly.