&gt; Mostly, a select group of people are getting richer, while everyone else stagnates.<p>Actually this isn&#x27;t true. Middle classes in the developed world are doing poorly relative to the richest in the developed world, but global poverty is on a steep decline.<p>Throughout the developing world, economic development is pulling hundreds of millions of people out of poverty at breakneck speed. Check out some of the data here, for starters: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;growth-and-distribution-of-prosperity&#x2F;world-poverty&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;growth-and-distribution-of-pr...</a>