Things may be better for Western poor people, but they are like the 1% of the poor relative to the 99% trapped in genuine third world poverty conditions. Someone living in a slum (or worse) in Haiti or dying of TB while working in a gold mine in Africa is looking at essentially a hopeless situation.
That's the thing that strikes me the most about OWS - you can talk about wealth gaps, but fundamentally, a shanty still looks like a shanty from 50 years ago. The gap between the Western lower and upper class is nothing compared to the gap everyone in North America has put on the truly poor.
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