Mostly false.

I understand that the best things in life cost more than I can reasonably afford because I have experienced beyond my means, I understand that Manhattan is not the same price as a small town with McDonald's serving the "best" burger, and I know my quality of life is better than most humans on Earth despite me making less than a poverty level in my home country.

You sound bitter because you lack perspective and gratitude in a position of privileged victimhood, unable to relate to having experienced what it is like to experience the pains of starvation with only water to abate, or barely avoid the elements killing you. If I had the $50 to spend on a burger that I knew would be a glorious, but brief, respite from my miserable existence, I wound spend it gladly because edging death really enhances value in ways you can't fathom from atop a high horse.