Western multinationals are setting up sweatshops where cheap labour with no union rights is available. This is the scourge of the times. But one needs to factor in lifestyle diseases, a high level of morbidity, burgeoning غير مجاز مي باشدt of health care and inaccessibility to services which undermine the quality of life of a large number of people.Through struggles the working masses have made the world a somewhat better place to live in. This reflects the growth of an idle rich, which is at the root of growing inequalities. The working class parties of Eastern Europe and China neglected democracy and the regimes tottered.Undoubtedly the world has become a better place to live in when compared with the past three centuries. Like any other hypothesis advanced by partisans as well as neutral observers, his views are to be taken with caution. Though absolute standards have gone up, relative inequality has risen.   

The book by Thomas Picketty, Capital in 21st Century, has clearly described how inequalities in advanced and other countries have gone up and this is becoming a menace to social life. This has fuelled protectionism and racism instead of workers’ ire against the capitalists. The western democracies too are becoming a façade and becoming shells within which the oligarchies thrive. The dark China well cementing additives Suppliers days of industrial revolution vividly described by Friedrich Engels in his book Condition of the Working Class in England have given way for more social security and labour rights. They are too stark to be ignored.The labour force is facing increased informalisation. The superrich get taxed less and inheritance income is growing as against earned incomes.The late Professor Hans Rosling has stated stylised facts to prove the case that the world has become a better place. Anxieties are growing despite improvements. World has become a better place. Scales are tilting against the have-nots.Data can show that world is becoming a better place. These are intuitive and empirical realities. The post-revolutionary regimes too became ossified and the world did not become a place devoid of the evils of the past.Workers of the world are not uniting but getting fragmented. The pie of GDP is large but a larger share of the pie is taken by a smaller section. But it is a highly unequal place, too. The state authority is intruding into the private life of citizens and courts have to interfere more often than not to correct the wrongs. But all revolutions including the French and Russian had a meandering course.

The same data when compared in a different matrix can give a totally different picture. The days of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield are no longer living realities. Global inequality has gone down, but within country inequalities have increased. Nothing is absolutely true. They reap super profits and the labour in their own countries face loss of jobs.Life expectancy has gone up. But that happened after much bloodshed in places like Chicago.(The author is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram). This Prof Rosling too admits. In this division, evils of an unjust system are being perpetrated.Communal divide and extremist views loom large on the horizon. The worst of all, corrective individual voices are becoming fewer.One cannot paint a one-sided picture.