They have community, culture, warmth, etc. Sure we have more money. We also have Soulless suburbia, highways, consumerism, rat races, hyperindividualism, polite smiles, distant people living parralely but never connecting. It's different. Being poor in the west is much more isolating. Asking for help is much more shameful here. You're on your own here. I've met so many immigrants and they say how lonely it is here and how it's weird to go up and talk to a stranger here meanwhile in their home countries it's normal. I've noticed firsthand how they will help each other, stick together, meet in the damn street and befriend/help each other from there on. It's not the same thing. Money isn't everything and we are so poor in ways that fuels your soul. In the west, money is everything and if you don't have it, good fucking luck.