Comment by AnthonyMouse

> I can criticize others actions even if I don't have a solution because doing nothing is better than making it worse.

Sometimes it isn't. Sometimes messing up the status quo forces people to then go back and fix it properly and you ultimately get a better result than doing nothing.

> The average person in the US has a living standard higher than the vast majority of the world.

~20% of people in the US have a net worth of zero or negative. Housing costs are unsustainably increasing faster than wages:

https://www.statista.com/chart/34534/median-house-price-vers...

This prevents family formation because young people can't afford a home. A similar trend exists for healthcare costs.

The US is now spending about as much on debt service as on the military.

The social security "trust fund" is soon to run out and everybody is ignoring it because none of the solutions are fun.

These are actual problems. "It's worse in Afghanistan" is a nonsense reason for not fixing them.