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Maybe look it up.
They earn just enough money to cover their very very basic needs. That's essentially an indentured servant.
If you don't like it, work to change it. Don't hide from the fact trying to redefine it.
Have you ever been abroad? What is your standard of not being an indentured servant?
You describe the US workforce with profoundly negative terms that would, in my opinion, fit workforce in Bangladesh or Egypt, if not Congo.
If we look at the income level of the poorest 10%, the United States ranks 16th—not as good, but still among the 10% best countries: https://ourworldindata.org/poverty (click on the Table tab)
Only because it's unique among developed countries in seeing healthcare costs as disposable income.
You only have to look at the definition in their link to see that US healthcare costs don't get adjusted for.
> most healthcare costs in the US aren't out of pocket anyway.
Right, most people pay health insurance in a way that's indistinguishable from paying taxes in practice (although the US system also comes with significant out-of-pocket costs, so just including insurance costs wouldn't tell the full story). But that "disposable income" metric is defined in a way that considers US-style health insurance voluntary and therefore money spent on that is disposable income (even though it never actually hits someone's bank account in practice), whereas in a country with tax-funded healthcare or mandatory health insurance (unless it qualifies as "social insurance", but normally it doesn't) the costs of that aren't counted in that person's income.
Even our poor people have cars.
We all benefit and even our pets have a higher quality of life than most people in the third world.
> Even our poor people have cars.
The luckier ones, sure, but there are plenty of people in the US that have none of that.
People in the US are so comfortable they don't seem to have a clue what real hardship actually is.
It isn't split up along poverty vs. accident lines, but this is not a major cause of death in the US.
> this is not a major cause of death in the US.
Wait, so people dying due to poverty isn't something that deserves attention just because it isn't common enough?
A tiny fraction of people dying from cold is not an indication that the US has a poverty issue.
Sure help them, no one is disputing that, but that's also not what's being discussed here.
Maybe travel a bit and see what actual poverty is.
Can't wait until you people are justifying soylent green in a couple decades.