and you can learn a lot from being a member of the global proletariat.
seriously, it's not that big of a deal. the people of Gaza are standing up cuz they have the shared experience of being oppressed by settler colonialism, those who benefit from colonization have zero incentive to oppose it.
that average income figure is misleading. BLS is choosy about who does and doesn't count for the purposes of that, it doesn't include people who made $0, disabled people, kids, etc etc. But I'm assuming the 35-40k figure does include everyone