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And if there is anything more taboo than sex on tv in the US, it’s reducing profits.
Even in PPP units (which subsumes both your points) California beats everyone in that list but Argentina (which has some kind of craziness in its PPP scaling I don't understand). The next closest is the Netherlands at ~$17.
I mean, it really shouldn't be surprising to point out that California is really fucking wealthy.
But yes: the USA does really well on disposable income metrics too. It's not popuular to point out given all our recurrent shitstorms, but in fact Americans are, yeah, really fucking wealthy.