The most amazing event in world history has happened during our lifetimes

Sometimes with all of the hysteria we forget just how amazing our time is.  In the period roughly coinciding with America's global hegemony (rivaled but never truly challenged by Russia) the world has experienced a spectacular reduction in absolute poverty.  This has coincided with many things that our intelligentsia hate:  capitalism, globalization, free trade, the rise of the multi-national.  To oversimplify:  the world has become far more like the hegemon and the result is a reduction in human misery never before experienced in the history of the world.

And our global 'elites' dream and conspire and rage for the day when the United States is no longer pre-eminent and capitalism is 'humbled' by politics.

I wonder what the world's hungry, disenfranchised poor think?  Hat tip Carpe Diem