I spend much time in South America. I've yet to see or meet a North American, with the exception of some friends from south of the Rio Grande and north of the Panamanian-Colombian frontier, who are not privileged. The statistics show that if you make something like $34,000 you are in the top 1% of the World's wage earners. If you make $11,000 you are in the top 5%. The World is not a fair place.