If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.