The Current Discussion: In the future, global prosperity will present more of a threat than poverty, according to a recent Post op-ed. Is this just rich-American rhetoric, or is the world really getting too prosperous for its own good?

I do agree with Michael Gerson's concluding remarks that learning to live with challenges posed by growing world prosperity is better than the alternative of challenges posed by rising poverty.
However, I do not agree that the world has reached a point of a crisis of rising prosperity.

The rising billions -- if they are indeed billions -- of prosperous populations around the world do not automatically mean decreased poverty. Advanced technology and a globalized market place had allowed millions to join the ranks of the affluent classes, but it is also pushing a bigger number toward abject poverty.

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