If you don't see that it is being played out like a zero sum game, then you haven't been paying attention. That is exactly what I am saying. >More people with

If you don't see that it is being played out like a zero sum game, then you haven't been paying attention. That is exactly what I am saying. >More people with money also means a bigger market for western products. A bigger market for western products that are also manufactured elsewhere cheaply, giving the corporations higher profits that generally benefit a relative few shareholders who continue to grow wealthier. I put quotes around progress because there is more to the story than just pure progress. But, I explicitly acknowledged that giving people a better life is a good thing. My point was that it is not the product of some grand benevolence and it comes at a price. Look at poverty rates in the U.S. alone, for example. For instance, in 2013, U.S. child poverty rates reached record levels. All we have really done is redistributed jobs and wealth from the working and middle classes of the developed world to developing nations and the wealthy.