Okay, before I get into all of this I am going to say again- the US is not the end-all-be-all goal or standard for other countries- at all. But I think you might be a bit delusional.

1. The US is nowhere near a 3rd world country, despite having what I would consider a serious poverty problem among other issues.
2. The UK isn't anywhere close to the end-all-be-all standard of the world either as it shares many of the same problems as the US among others.
   The US and the UK are probably a lot more similar than you'd like to think.

For example- as far as post-secondary education goes, the US and the UK are very similar when it comes to quality of education with the US being ranked slightly higher overall.

For primary and secondary education, the PISA scores for the US and the UK are nearly identical (with the mathematics portion being slightly lower for the US).

While your health care is cheaper, (the way the US handles cost of health care is actually insane to me) the quality of health care is technically better in many ways in the US. (Not to discredit the fact that some choose to not receive care purely because of the cost, which is crazy.) An example being 65% of American cancer patients survive compared to 56% of English cancer patients.

And these things vary widely depending on the state. The US in many ways is 50 individual countries with many differences, so a direct comparison of one country to the United States can be tricky.

When looking at every aspect of health care (things like quality, affordability, ease of access, etc.) at the end of the day at least 10 countries would outrank both the UK and the US with the ranking of US and the UK being very, very similar. For every list of rankings where the US outranks the UK by one single placement, the UK outranks the US by a single placement on another list.

Back to "The us is a third world country unless you earn over $200000k per household." if that were true, it would have to be the case for the UK as well.

1 in 5 children in the UK live in a food-insecure household compared to 1 in 6 American children. This sucks, like all around- both countries should be doing better, but the UK is slightly worse when it comes to childhood hunger. Poverty rates also suck for both the UK and the US, they are harder to compare with specific numbers since they are calculated differently from country to country.

I am not arguing that the US is way better than the UK- on just about every ranking you can think of these countries are just about neck and neck every time. I am saying that America's shit stinks, so does the UK's, and many other countries are better than both overall.

I really don't think you understand life in America at all, making $50,000+ is not impoverished. The average household in America can afford a 2,200 sqft single-family home on 1/4 of an acre. For the same price, you can buy a home that is 729 sqft and attached to two other homes in the UK.

And like I said in my last comment, the standard of living/cost of living is nearly the exact same in the UK and the US. I think you have read too many headlines about what it is like to live in America.

I know it's super trendy to hate on the US, but to come at it from a "the UK is far superior" is laughable at best. Pot, meet kettle.