Comment by benched

I agree that 'inequality' is too simplistic a concept to adequately describe what the problem is in the US. I believe the real problem is more that the stresses a poor person must contend with to hold down even the smallest apartment, buy food, and in many cases maintain a car, are extremely high compared with middle-class people. It's that the economy is skewed in such a way that makes the whole game seem unfair to a huge fraction of the population. You're right that the basic standard of infrastructure is higher in the US, and that most people here enjoy those benefits, so there's a relative effect there.