I sure know better than a privileged first world citizen like you, so i'll enlighten you a bit. The average monthly salary here is 150 dollars and the above average is usually like 350 dollars and only very few people earn more than that. The minimum wage in the US for example is 7.5 dollars per hour and if the average person is working like 40 hours a week, then by simple math they earn 300 dollars a week. I know that this seem very shitty in the US, but here it's well above average for a WHOLE MONTH, not just a week. A country like mine doesn't produce sh*t and depend on importing nearly everything from other countries and those stuff are sold to us in dollars. So when everything is expensive as sh*t because it's imported and the average income is 150 dollars, then most people are fucked.
I'm not sure if my points don't seem clear, but i'm suffering from a frustrating brain fog and i'm not posting in my native language, so i'm not as intelligent or good at explanation as before.