I think the non-native US population has some unique characteristics due to having been settled by immigrants. No matter how desperate the situation was back home, you still have to be a certain kind of person to leave behind most or all of the poeople you knew, and set out across the ocean. On the positivie side, I think this makes for a resilient and adaptible population. But I think it also makes for a population that is self-centered and lacks empathy for those worse off.

We can probably thank Lina Khan, chair of FTC for this. It’s amazing to finally have someone back in the FTC that cares about protecting consumers.

If cats could talk, they wouldn’t be cats. So it’s not really possible to answer this question :)