GP...take the words I type at face value without adding your bent. There is one pool of money so there will always be the haves and the have nots. Pretty self explanatory.

TK....You cannot compare any average wage in the US to that of a third world country. Sure take $24,000 a year and live like a king in some countries but then you aren't making $24K a year there either. You'd have to already have it in the bank. And US welfare/subsidy programs don't follow you out of the country. The poor would still be poor else where. Sure some can and do climb out of their lot in life but, for the reasons I explained above, the void is quickly filled by another. It's just the facts of a capitalist society. There will always be the lower class in the US just as there wil always be an upper class. Just like with investing there must be losers in order for there to be winners.