Even if you look at people working fast food jobs in America, they have a better life than most of the world. The poorest in the world don’t have to be so poor in order for the rich to have what they have (and rich here means anyone earning over $35,000/year). Most of the supply lines that wealthy country and wealthy people use don’t actually involve the countries where the poorest of the poor live.
But if we’re worried about the environment, the answer would be yes. In order to experience the lifestyle of an average American it would require about 20 more planets earths to exist. America alone (representing 4% of the world’s population) consumes about 20% of the world’s resources.
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