You are daying that their lives (health, comfort, lifespan, opportunity) are better in absolute terms but not as good as Danes or someone, so that makes them wirse off.
That means that status is more important than actual things that matter.
Any one of them can sell his house and truck, give away the money, take his family and go back to on-foot roaming hunter-gathering to survive. I wonder how many do.
You can too.
Ever heard about the homeless?
Owning a refrigerator you can't reliably afford to fill, and owning a truck you can't reliably afford to fuel or have serviced, and NOT owning your own home doesn't make you rich in America, it makes you poor...not really about "status."
LOL!!! A friend of mine once wanted to show how superior humans are to other species and asked how many apes had developed nuclear weapons.
Actually, it means that they aren't doing as well as they ought to be. The average Danes really is better off than the average American when it comes to things that matter to them, and good, cheap health care matters a lot when you need it.
Why would they want to?
TV leakage would only be detectable at up to tens of light years with instruments in the Arecibo class or a bit better with the 1km array. There are a decent number of stars within that volume of space.
However, it is reckoned that the Arecibo beamed radar ranging signal and some military space radar signals would be intermittently visible to anyone along the line of sight out to several tens of thousand light years. It is one of those FAQs for Arecibo and the 1km array.
The next generation of radio telescopes are approaching the point where they may be sensitive enough to see back beyond the point of galaxy formation. It remains to be seen what the new Webb IR scope can see - it is due for launch in December - lets hope it is a successful one!
Whenever you get a new waveband opened up in high resolution there are always a few unexpected serendipitous discoveries not long after first light. They tend to point them at the most intriguing objects first. (after doing some simple system tests on known calibration objects).
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