If you think the US is a Democracy, and not just a complicated form of slavery that benefits the few, you really aren't paying attention.

@anolandria The ~$36,000 the article cites, for a family of three, is roughly only 138% of the federal poverty guidelines for 2025.

If that correlates, then yes, the majority of the population is poor (which I tell my incredulous European friends all the time -- Americans are, by and large, poor).