If the writer finds other countries so fantastic, why doesn’t she simply move there? If I think that Sweden or Denmark is the best country on earth for me to live (compared to unequal America), then I would move there.

As far as the need to empty your retirement account in order to pay for your child’s college tuition in the best possible university, which degree do you think will get a higher-paying job: engineering from Purdue or anthropology from Harvard?