Are you suggesting that our country going down the shitter due to greed should not matter as much because a lot of the world is in the shitter already?

So we should be prioritizing Third World problems that we cannot really fix? What do you expect us to do exactly? Go in gung-ho Team America style and save everyone from the evil dictators? Lets turn their country into a sanctioned war zone, that will save them! All we can do is offer trade/assistance and hope whoever is in power is not some prick like Kim Jong Il or any of the other useless dictator shits that cause these problems in the first place.

Our problems are actually similar though the product is obviously milder in the First World. The problem is the disorder caused by a small amount of people obtaining most of the gains and pulling most of the strings. A lot of third world problems are offshoots of the same problems we have here and have always had. Greedy assholes with too much power, money, and leverage.

The whole, well you aren't starving blah and blah argument is tired. "Better eat that, people are starving!" What do you want me to do, airlift my leftover burrito to Africa? We are who we are and live where we live. We have built up a standard of living that everyone should have and many desire. A stable standard of living is the backbone of a stable modern society. If people cant buy things, we are fucked. If a small amount of people end up with too much power/money and our ability to change for the better stagnates, we are fucked. Why do our problems not matter just because someone on the planet is suffering more? Someone will probably always be suffering more. It is relative. Our problems are very important and require immediate attention.

There is hope for humanity in the First World. But only if we allow a just First World to evolve. If we bury our anger and sense of justice in Third World guilt, we will just be distracted from the problems at home. We cannot elevate the Third World without stabilizing the First World.

The 99% statement is simple marketing. It makes sense and gets their point across in a simple statement. It is representative of the point they are trying to make. 1% controls most of the wealth, unjustly, while the rest of the 99% get the scraps that they let us have. It is unjust and broken and needs to be fixed just like so much else in our world.

Aside from that, it is a statistical statement that only takes the USA into account.
I understand and sympathize with what you are getting at but your statement is ridiculous.

TLDR: "I am the 99%" is a statistical statement that only takes the USA into account and has nothing to do with the rest of the world. This makes your statement ridiculous fluff. Third World guilt is bullshit and there is not much that we can do to fix it aside from sending them food and hoping they get it. Our problems are just as important.