we don't know better

• all we "see" and "know" about America are pretty crappy, media-baity things; and the Americans we see IRL are noisy, annoying, fat, stupid and altogether unhealthy -- and they're usually the good ones, since the poor and even-more stupid ones don't travel over here

we value work-life balance/health-and-safety/income-security more

• basically we're more risk-averse, happy to intentionally impoverish ourselves if it means lower risk of (extreme) poverty or praising to invisible gods like the environment.
• think elites sneering at lowly manual labor or rich entrepreneurs