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Except it's easy to have all that when everything costs about 50 cents and poor people will work for a dollar an hour as maids and butlers. They are just the only ones with any hard currency and their country's inflation is insane. If a dentist went to Nigeria and made as much as they do here, they'd have that lifestyle too. Of course, they can't because only friends and business partners of the kleptocrats in government make money. That's the "Elite". Garbage people who ruthlessly exploit their own.I think he is using it to describe an unworldly individual who hasnt traveled extensively because you don't seem to get shithole countries have elites who live better than even fairly wealthy people here. For example, American graduate programs have a ton of foreigners from really poor countries but those kids grew up in more opulent circumstances than a dentist's kid here with maids, drivers, cooks, etc. The difference between the haves and have nots is more exaggerated in the third world.
Probably "unsophisticated" would be a better word choice for what he was going for, since hick specifically implies rural. But you can be from a block in NYC with all your relatives and hardly leave it and end result is same, despite living in one of worlds major cities
And like Boq, they figure out they don't have Real money when they move to a Western country and their future is a degree from Guelph University and living in your dead nan's house. That's why the sentient turd tries to talk down about the West. Bitter Beta Boq is trying to flex about being third world rich to actual human beings.