Only if you completely ignore all context and recent history, and the fact that many nations does not have all of the issues which the US has, but has actually figured out some solutions to some of the problems.
Meanwhile the US seems more adamant than ever to make life insufferable for most of its citizens. The point being that the US is indeed very special in its failure to learn from others, despite having more wealth than anybody else.
The “it has always been like this everywhere in the entirety of human history” is a pretty useless and false statement in this context.
I haven’t watched the Gamers Nexus video(they are the ones doing the research on this subject) yet, but according to their preview in their previous video, it seems they hinted at the fact that some tvs can access the internet even though you don’t physically connect them.
I was also of the belief that if you just kept your smart tv dumb then it wouldn’t be a problem, but it seems like that is not entirely true.