[mlrtime]

> isn't applicable to those on the lower end of the economic scale.

Why not? Immigrants come here with $0. My wife came to America with $50 and didn't speak any english. Most of America was founded on poor groups and families taking all their possessions with no jobs and creating a new life.

Is it easy, hell no. But sure beats staying in the same place and complaining about other people.

There are still cities in the US that will give you land and a house if you just stay and live there. Living in NYC and SF is not a right.