More people than ever before in human history live above the line of absolute poverty, today, right now, and this has been a continouos trend for many years so

More people than ever before in human history live above the line of absolute poverty, today, right now, and this has been a continouos trend for many years so far. The middle class is only eroding insofar as you define things in some wacky ways. In terms of basic acquisitive power, quality of life, access to goods and services and general well-bieng, more people than ever and a larger percentage of the population than ever before live what in fairly recent history would be considered very much middle class or even upper middle class lives. I know it's fashionable to deride the modern world as fucked with poverty and misery (and ironically this is a thing most often done by comfortably middle class, educated people with plenty of access to good standards of living) but none of the basic data on how well our world's 8 billion people live right now actually supports this notion. Shifting goal posts endlessly also can slip into dishonesty.