Granted, you were living in Sweden at the time (for whom it may concern, he's posted this before, most recently about a week ago, please look it up), but surely you have heard of him visiting impoverished Appalachians - log cabins, no glass windows, no shoes, etc - on his Poverty Tours?
Now here we are, on a site where most of the few actual Americans can afford the luxury of the latest computer device of their choosing to doodle away despite being unemployed - I mean, 'at their job' *winks in sarcasm* and you're talking that these mostly overweight fellas aren't better off than their emaciated folks were?
pffffft, do you really not remember how it was back home back then?