[api]

Stop this race to the bottom stuff. You know what else is a luxury and always has been?

HVAC, transportation, anything beyond maybe emergency medicine, Internet access, education, drinkable tap water, …

The fact that the bulk of the US population has these things is what makes us a first world country.

[pocksuppet]

Actually the US is a first-world country because it's allied with the US. Russia is a second-world country because it's allied with Russia, and Switzerland is a third-world country because it's allied with neither.