Most humans are now middle class or wealthy

Yuli Ban · Oct 2, 2018

Most humans are now middle class or wealthy

Something of enormous global significance is happening almost without notice. For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty. By our calculations, as of this month, just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, live in households with enough discretionary expenditure to be considered “middle class” or “rich.” About the same number of people are living in households that are poor or vulnerable to poverty. So September 2018 marks a global tipping point.
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Most humans are now middle class or wealthy

Yuli Ban Level 18 (Magician) LitRPG Author Citizen Aspiring Writer

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