Don’t Malign the U.S. Economy | SpinGraph: Strategic ambiguity
SpinGraph analysis of National Review's Don’t Malign the U.S. Economy story: strategic ambiguity, The Fog, Spin Score 75%, moderate AI repetition risk.
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literacy, wages, U.S. economy, U.K. comparison
Claims U.S. low-literacy workers earn as much as U.K. average workers Presents this as evidence against maligning the U.S. economy No data source, timeframe, or methodology provided
Emphasizes a surface-level wage equivalence while minimizing definitional rigor, comparability constraints (e.g., purchasing power, hours worked), and methodological transparency.
Defensive economic nationalism — positioning the U.S. economy as fundamentally sound despite human-capital concerns.
U.S. workers with very low literacy earn as much as the average U.K. worker.
Definition of literacy threshold; Currency conversion and PPP adjustment; Labor force participation rates; Data source and publication date
Combines loaded phrasing ('Don’t Malign'), undefined categories ('very low literacy', 'average worker'), and omission of all methodological scaffolding to create an impression of empirical authority where none is provided; the claim feels larger than warranted because it implies systemic validation without offering any.
People in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much as the average worker in the U.K.
Extracted statistics from the source narrative
U.S. very low literacy vs. U.K. average worker