Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?
In the United States, both the rich and the poor are getting richer. Poor in Africa (been there, done that) means you live in a mud-brick house with a thatch roof and eat corn grits every meal. Everything you own would fit in the back of a pickup truck, but of course you don’t have one of those. You live in one room divided into two by hanging up your clothes on a line. In rural areas, you have neither electricity nor a table and may have to walk a long way for water. At night, your light comes from a single kerosene candle. There is no screen wire for the one window. Your children have few or no toys, and you expect two or three to die in childhood. You rarely have medicine, though you are often sick. American poor would be called “middle” or “upper middle class” in most of Africa, much of south Asia, and parts of Latin America.
