We have the richest poor people in the world.
If you would show a poor person in Africa what a poor person in USA has for food an living arrangements, they would think they were Kings (at least living like one)
Or a poor person in the slums of India. You haven an excellent point
A quote paraphrased for Ayaan Hirsan Li, “The Caged Virgin” author, “My father wanted to live in a country where the poor were fat instead of starving.”