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La globalización podrá haber enriquecido a determinadas élites, pero perjudicó a muchas personas, devastó centros industriales y dejó a la gente más vulnerable a políticas populistas. Hay buena parte de verdad en este discurso, pero si se considera el mundo en conjunto, el panorama es diferente. A esa escala, la historia de la desigualdad en el siglo xxi es inversa: el mundo se está volviendo más igualitario
We live in an age of inequality—or so we are frequently told. Globalization, the argument goes, may have enriched certain elites, but it hurt many other people, ravaging one-time industrial heartlands and making people susceptible to populist politics. There is much that is true about such narratives—if you look only at each country on its own. Zoom out beyond the level of the nation- state to the entire globe, and the picture looks different. At that scale, the story of inequality in the twenty-first century is the reverse: the world is growing more equal than it has been for over 100 years
