Ok so I know indians who have lives as nice as mine or better and are in my field and you are the one who said many of these gains were in india and china. So you are saying for most of the world but for much of the world they did not see these awesome gains talked about. As for aid im saying that means what we have seen might effectively have stopped and there are many places that could still be doing better. silent generation and greates generation in a city had running water and electricity for most of their lives. Yeah you could point to very rural greatest or it not being available when they were very young but overall its a constant improvement track. The obscenely rich getting massively more rich while first world middle class goes lower and heck even the big gains with first world success stories like china and india are stagnating. Again the point to small gain in dollar terms in places making a massive difference in quality of life while the overall wealth gap goes way lopsided is better than the small bit not happening but way worse than a well run world would be at with a more equitable total way of living.