Yeah, I'm well aware of PPP, and no, it doesn't fully explain cost of living differences, and doesn't "prove" that the poorest in the U.S. are the 1% of the planet.
There are millions of people living in Third World cities like Sao Paulo, Mexico City, etc. that are objectively upper middle class to wealthy, even by U.S. standards. There's horrible inequality, but a big chunk of these countries [[maybe 20-30%) live the same as middle and higher income Americans. It's just that the poorest are far poorer than in the U.S.
And I'm foreign-born. I'm well aware the U.S. is comparatively very wealthy.
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