The US has more extreme poverty but at that point it’s not even useful. It’s hard to put chronically homeless people with an array of health problems acquired from living outside to work in a factory.
The class of people capable of working in factories are more impoverished in the UK though.
The US is on the path to be sure but the British are more impoverished. That’s not praise of the US, the British are more progressed.
The US has more extreme poverty but at that point it’s not even useful. It’s hard to put chronically homeless people with an array of health problems acquired from living outside to work in a factory.
The class of people capable of working in factories are more impoverished in the UK though.