All People Are Winners

Up until the eighteenth century, most people in Europe lived in severe poverty. They had no running water, no sewage systems, no medical care and hardly enough to eat. Liberalism has brought people freedoms and levels of prosperity that have never before existed. But it’s not only the people living in developed first-world countries who are enjoying a level of prosperity never before experienced by mankind. The standard of living has risen everywhere else as well. Most people (80%) can now meet their basic needs. There are the very wealthy regions (Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore); and there are extremely poor regions (about 9%) with unacceptable living conditions.