check out the amazing mental gymnastics the author comes up with to

We are not including, for example, any valuation of future Social Security benefits. Nor any value of human capital: that Harvard degree (if it was in, say, puppetry) might not be worth what was paid for it but it's worth something. Nor what is the greatest source of wealth for everyone in the developed countries: that happenstance that we were born into developed countries. Countries where if we go broke the children will still get educated, we'll still get medical care, food, shelter and all the rest: the value, in short, of being a citizen of a country with a developed welfare state.

this motherfucker really tried to claim that if you are broke in the USA you still get everything you need you live