It's fairly hilarious to me when this sentiment comes up. Gun violence, police brutality, lack of access to food, pest-infested ramshackle housing, lack of acc

It's fairly hilarious to me when this sentiment comes up. Gun violence, police brutality, lack of access to food, pest-infested ramshackle housing, lack of access to utilities of every sort (water, power), and poor or little access to education are all things I regularly witnessed or experienced when I was growing up poor in America. I find generally the people who express what you have simply don't realize how terribly wrong they are. You know, your comment doesn't really have much to do with the article anyhow. I guarantee you no matter how much "better off" American poors are than some elsewhere, they definitely do not as a rule think those who do have it worse are in their predicament due to their own choices. That is, there's a high degree of overlap, as compared to the relationship between America's poor and its rich/powerful.