[georgespencer]

I think it's quite likely, but unknowable, that folks would accept the income:cost of living ratio of the US if it came with the associated sociological benefits. I think you're underestimating how disproportionately impoverished many people around the world are.

[geodel]

Well people here keep ranting about 1 percenters without ever realizing that >$100K earners are among one percenters in the world.

[mamon]

Actually, the threshold to be in top 1% income bracket worldwide is $32,400

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05061...

[zjaffee]

This number is both old and in nominal terms. A person making 50k USD in China is likely richer than a person in the US making 100k USD in the US.

http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/771271476908686029/Segal.pdf suggests that the number to be in the global 1% is around $50,000 PPP per person in a given household.

[mensetmanusman]

Except that the Chinese person is a prisoner in their own country, and the American could move to China to have a higher quality of life outside of the polluted cities.

[georgespencer]

You're right that a few people do, although I think most people realise how deeply fortunate we all are to have won to at least some extent a genetic and [entirely separate] geographic lottery.