For historical comparison: the average serf in Western Europe during serfdom had a larger share of wealth than the average person of the middle class in the United States does today. The wealthiest nobles had far, far less of the overall pie than the richest people do today, and they shared it all the time with serfs -- feasts multiple times a month. And when we take this to a worldwide scale, it gets even more ridiculous, with the bottom 40% or so of people having even less, if we can conceptualize less than virtually nothing.

Of course, even the richest nobles during serfdom had a drastically lower standard of living than the middle class in the U.S. does today. This world is so wealthy these days. And we could all live like it, if only one large, rich country or the EU would get off its ass and have some kind of actual vision for the future.