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I would bet the opposite. Average person in US gets less wealthy, average person globally gets more wealthy. Tenth decile in US gets more wealthy, 9th tread water, and the other 8 deciles revert to global mean.



But even globally, most of the financial acceleration in the developing world is only happening for the top quarter (or less) of the population.




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