The article is an oversimplification. I have worked in the US, Asia and Europe, and they are completely different places with different realities. For example

The article is an oversimplification. I have worked in the US, Asia and Europe, and they are completely different places with different realities. For example, in the US it is normal for medicine doctors and lawyers to be rich. That concept alone is very strange in the rest of the world. They have amazing doctors that are not millionaires. In Europe wealth was created by colonies. The fact that today the US is the hegemonic power in the world means that today the rest of the world is a colony of the US, who could not stop printing dollars the rest of the world are forced to buy in order to buy essentials like energy, because the US controls militarily those energy places(Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and they want to control Iran, the only one left). China and India are just overpopulated. Wealth in China is related to being close to the CCP, that is just a mafia, like in Russia, Communism makes it possible for people that fill a room to own the entire country. You just can't understand what happens in those countries. In India you just can get killed if you try to save young women or men from the streets(and anger the mafias that profit from that). In China you will disappear if you do harm to the CCP. In Africa wealth is related with controlling the natural resources the world demand. That usually means killing the members of the opposing factions and specially being in favor of the most powerful countries in the World, like the US or China. Only the countries in Africa that significantly lack natural resources live in peace and could aspire to prosperity. The concept of the "American dream" only applies to the US. In China, Japan or Europe population are getting older at a never seen before rate and that is their main problem today.