[A. Pole]

Net worth is growing not shrinking.

Not every net growth is good. For example the system in which one family lives on 70K a year while the other lives on 30K a year is better than the one where one family lives on 100K a year while the other lives on 10K a year.

Also the larger size of economy is not always better - the day you merge USA with Latin America you will get significant instant "increase".

[JasonC]

Socialist horsefeather from start to finish - there are no permanent classes in the US and nobody is getting poorer.