May be in a first world country like the US, the country from which I come from(India), things like these make huge difference to a person's lifestyle.
It's not a sound system. It's round the clock house help in a country like India. A driver (instead of working your way through mind numbing traffic every day, twice a day), a chef, a maid, etc.
It's buying real estate to secure your family's future for generations instead of living hand to mouth.
It's sending your kids to good schools or doctors in the West as opposed to hoping to scrape together enough cash to educate or send them to doctors at all.
It would be really hard for a first world person to understand how big the chasm is in less privileged parts of the world.
You do not want to be on the wrong side of the wealth divide.
Just adding more to your point. People in the US and western hemisphere in general how many things that are just nature to them are not available to us here in India.
Case in point air and water. Just air and water. Like try breathing the dusty, polluted air. Or drinking water which gives you and your family throat infection every two months, and outbreaks of dengue killing family and friends every 6 months or so.
I'd literally do anything at this point just to breath good air. And that's just starting with the most fundamental requirement of life itself.
