Still America is very rich compared to Europe!

Baze may have been a poor, working class guy, but he had a pretty decent life before he went to prison and his brother got murdered. Good Union job, great girlfriend, decent home. You have a very simplistic view of life in the United States. Even if you're poor, if you have a good head on your shoulders, you can make out pretty all right.

My brother was eaten by wolves on the CT Turnpike

My point exactly !!

Have you been to Europe?

Affordable health care
Affordable college without student loan debt
Mandatory vacations and sick days
Humane, civilized, respectful police
Sane laws regarding drugs and sex (no irrational moral panics like we have here)

The poor in Europe live better than the upper middle class in America in many ways. I have a college degree and work for a fortune 500 company, and a fry cook in France or Germany has benefits I will never get (health care that can't be taken away or drive you bankrupt, more vacation days, no student loans, etc).

I've met people who earned 6 figures in America who didn't get the benefits you get as a birthright in western Europe.

I can't tell if you are trolling or not.

Pretty big difference between different countries within Europe

I can't think of any european country I wouldn't prefer to be poor instead of being poor in United-States, not to say I'd rather be middle class anywhere in Europe instead of being poor in United-States. I'm really curious why you're thinking it's so great to be poor in United-States.

America is the most relevant country in the world.America is elite, America is a zeitgeist touchstone.

There's economical unity in Europe but no social unity.

You would rather but you're not because you were probably a sheltered middle-class teenage punk when you wrote this 5 years ago and if you're lucky you're in college fingering drunk girls

You also have never been to Europe