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The US does seem to be more preoccupied with wealth than others. I remember listening to a conversation between my father (a corporate lawyer) and one of his work colleagues while they were basically categorising a person's worth as a result of his salary (and this from someone who once told me he didn't care what I did in life as long as I was happy).
By their reckoning, you are nothing until you're earning $100,000 a year, and that people who earned less than that were lazy and unambitious. When I pointed out that there are plenty of worthwhile professions that pay far less than that (and that, of course, the average annual income in the US is far, far less than $100,000), they responded that anyone who enters into these professions in the first place has no ambition either.
I was shocked to say the least.
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