The truth of the world

HAY GUYS! I'm in America! Theres all these weird people here. They're all trying to like work and do stuff. And every day they walk around to useless jobs which pay hardly
anything due to the gov stealing half their money and then corporations stealing the other half! BUT THEY KEEP WORKING ZOMG WTF. I stopped one on the street and asked him why he kept working if he was just working to make other people rich. but he was like "Dude, if I dont work i'll starve," because while speech is a right, barely, apparently staying alive isn't. So i was like, what kind of fucked up place is this!?

"The problem is, is the artificial standard of living REALLY costing that much because it SHOULD or is it costing that much because of corruption and other practices that need to be done away with?"

No, that's not the problem.
Standard of living is too high because there're people in other countries who can do the same job as you do and they can do it for less money and faster.
Many jobs don't require education and thus the western worker can't compete with asians who lived in a communist shithole and are used to be poor as shit.
So until everyone accepts free market economy and has the same standard of living the western countries will have to lower theirs.
I say we should speed that up and allow the poor people to immigrate.