This is a possible scenario by ~2040: Centralized China vs International India. Surveillance state vs decentralized digital diaspora. Two rising powers, with very different cultures. The US may be like the declining British Empire, whose dominance in 1913 was gone by 1945. https://twitter.com/buirachel/status/1460508564359823374

First, poor Indians in the ascending class are happier than rich people in the descending class.

Second, ascent/descent captures rate of change, shows class isn’t static.

Last, all can ascend.

Rather than assume static categories, like developed/developing world or rich/middle-class/poor, it puts the focus on rates of change.

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1362640635006713857

Roughly speaking, most of the world along with the global elite has been economically gaining in recent years, while the Western middle class has not.
brookings.edu/research/whats…