Poor people on the bottom rungs of society do live comfortably! Be happy that as someone who lives in the west you have potable water coming from your taps, electricity that is available more than 99% of the time, that if you live in an apartment you are entitled to a working refrigerator, a roof that doesn't leak, a unit free of bugs, and working smoke detectors. Even poor people here can afford TVs and cars and air conditioning. Go to somewhere like Mexico or the Philippines and see how poor people live there.