It's relative to who you consider as 'we.' If you mean workers in the US, yeah it's pretty flat. However if you mean 'we' to be workers globally, we've gained a

It's relative to who you consider as 'we.' If you mean workers in the US, yeah it's pretty flat. However if you mean 'we' to be workers globally, we've gained a staggering amount in the past few decades. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in our lifetimes[1]. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty