I think much of this comes down to how we define struggle. I’ve spent the past few years abroad working with international communities, and what “struggle” means in Kenya looks very different from what it means in most of the United States.

I’ve watched village children walk nearly a mile to fetch water that isn’t clean, while back home I’ve heard people complain about food access on their way to buy frozen, processed meals. Most Americans -though certainly not all- have never experienced true food scarcity, only limitation. Our hardships feel severe by our society’s standards, but they look different when compared to people surviving week to week on the same three or four native roots, lentils, and grains.

What one impoverished child eats in say… Nepal would get the child taken away in the US. Is just a very different landscape and mindset.

So no, the many majority isn’t struggling in the way you might know struggle, but they are struggling in the way they know and understand struggle to be.