Nothing is that simple. If you look at poverty rate, there are more poor people in the united states. And if you look at purchasing power, some numbers will giv

Nothing is that simple. If you look at poverty rate, there are more poor people in the united states. And if you look at purchasing power, some numbers will give you that the cost of a basket of good in comparison with income is exactly the same: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity and some numbers will differ. My point was that, people in France have a really similar lifestyle than in the US (removing the cultural differences) and saying that people are looking at things that can be fixed because they are poor is just not true.