I was anticipating that response. I agree with you. But I'm not just talking about the third world."poor"
I'd kinda like it if we held ourselves to the highest of standards, not "Well, we're not Brazil or India. That's good enough."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstal ... -humanity/
However, look at it a little more closely in relation to other countries. We’re often told that to be poor in the US is much worse than being poor in the social democracies of Europe. And the bottom 10% in the US are indeed worse off than the bottom 10% in Sweden. But they’re better off than the bottom 10% in Germany or France: places where we are told that there is indeed that social democracy.
Maybe it’s true that the US doesn’t do enough for the poor in the US. That’s rather a judgement call based upon your own morals. But it’s very difficult to see in the actual figures that the US doesn’t do enough. The poor in the US are richer than around 70% of all the people extant. The poor in the US are about as poor, perhaps a bit richer, than the poor in other rich countries. It is true that there is more inequality in the US: but this isn’t because the poor are poorer. It’s because the rich are richer.