Would be interesting to see GDP per capita with the top 5% of earners taken out. Same applies to any country I guess, but I'm really interested in standard of living for the bottom 50%. That's how I want to judge a country. I agree with Claude, and I'll mention again the book Deer Hunting With Jesus, which attempts to describe why poor working class Americans vote for the party that regularly screws them over when it comes to income protection, healthcare and education. And it basically comes down to a promotion of nationalism, guns, abortion, racism / immigration, and class warfare.
It's quite amazing how the very people who screw them over are the ones they vote for. I guess though the Dems haven't done much to improve the lives of the lowest paid, most vulnerable either. Politics is broke.
