There's a couple of oversights in your argument. 1. I can bet an average household in the US is > 2 people (google says 3.13). The threshold in question is for

There's a couple of oversights in your argument. 1. I can bet an average household in the US is > 2 people (google says 3.13). The threshold in question is for personal income. 2. The context of the whole discussion is global, so comparisons made from a perspective of a citizen of one of the richest countries in the world don't really fly.