one percent of all americans meanwhile the middle classes of the developed world are consistently gwendoline as american and european workers are slowly being merged into the new global labor pool and due to the globalization capital large corporations are leaving their whole markets in search of much cheaper labor all to the benefit of the developing world a huge growth of the middle class particularly but in the other bric countries which is going to transform the relationships between consumer and producer across the world being able to save and consume at the same time russians brazilians chinese indians and many others have life thousand tastes resembling their western peers these are countries that are going to continue to grow. if not rapidly least moderately while the rest of europe and united states seems to be mired in crisis the truth is that the middle class and the rich developed west is in serious trouble if current trends continue the very nature of western societies may change in the meantime the developing world will have open. very well these muscles are in a cross. ok jeff