That's the wrong question (a very poor state to aim for!). The right questions are: are we better off than we were? And are we as well off as we could be?
> It so easily becomes: capitalism = bad
It so easily becomes "capitalism vs. communism". Where is our imagination to dream better?
(both are bad in my opinion, and for similar reasons (centralisation of power))
It's just we often see these "outrageous" statistics without perspective.
What has it been historically?
Are we still better off than soviet Russia?
It so easily becomes: capitalism = bad.