The truth is, this is a great time and place in which to be rich. The average Fortune 500 chief executive pocketed $10.5 million in 2008, the last year for which data are yet available. That's more than 300 times the average worker's pay. Back in the Dark Ages -- the 1940s through 1980 -- the ratio was typically about 40 times. From 1979 through 2007, says the CBO, the top 1% saw their average household income skyrocket from $346,000 to $1.3 million in constant, 2007 dollars. That's after taxes. Meanwhile the average middle-class family saw their income rise from $44,000 to $55,000.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...ily-love_money

The article is mostly about high net worth individuals doing just fine, but those numbers for middle-class families are pathetic!

Puts the credit crisis and historically low rates of personal/retirement savings in perspective, though. I'll try to make a decent poll about it, but in case it stinks what's your opinion of the future? Doesn't have to be US, either.