America has some problems, but there's a reason why they have a GDP 40x larger than France with only 5x the population.
In fact, the GDP per capita is 100$ less than that of the UK, and more than that of, for example, Japan or South Korea.
Also of note may be that France, unlike the US, does not dispose of oil resources, which makes comparisons not quite as simple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
And I'm not sure to understand why you prefer one mesure over the other. Pure GDP does not take into account systemic issues, such as the cost of health care or education. And the point of the discussion was the relevant merit of various economical systems.
But I did not post in order to correct some semantic point. But rather to explain the non-commented down votes.
In your original post you made an extraordinary claim, that was off by an order of magnitude. I pointed this out, and instead of checking facts, you downgraded your claim, even though a simple Google lookup would have been enough to know that even that was wrong by 100%.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...
In my mind this is an example of why it is difficult to have meaningful debate in our society. There is no point in debating if one or both parties are not willing to challenge their understanding of the facts.
You cannot round numbers at 1 significant digit and use them for further computations, that's butchering math.