In the US, it takes twice as long for the average person to earn a dollar compared to the UK, France, and Germany. The US has higher GDP per capita, but it’s so unequal that more of its citizens are worse off compared to Western Europe. In 1990, the US’s time-to-get-one-dollar numbers were comparable to these countries. In the US, the well-off are doing better than ever, but everyone else lives precariously.