Global capitalism is lifting people out of poverty at the fastest rate in human history. Global inequality is narrowing, fast.
Unfortunately, the organizations that address inequality tend to rely on donations and, thus, exaggerate the issues and statistics, thereby incensing school children, college "scholars", and Episcopal clergy [in other words, those who are, in order, either developing intellectually, are historically passionate about perceived inequities, or are notoriously simple in their world view] and leave a gross misrepresentation in the public square.
No matter how impoverished one may feel, most of us are living better than did a king in the Middle Ages.