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Corporations (and the plutocrats) are getting wealthier than ever at the expense of the 'common man' as he gets poorer; this is a worldwide pehnomenon.

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I don't believe this is true in aggregate. Rather I think that those entities are indeed getting richer, but so is the "common man". Moreeover, those entities in myriad ways provide direct and/or indirect avenues for the common man to become enriched.

If you want to look at this in a significant perspective, just compare the average standard of living in this country now with the average standard of living, say, in the early 1900's. The poor (with the exception of the homeless) now live far better than did much of the middle class in those days. Go back to the 1800's and the poor today live better in many ways than did even the wealthy of that day.

The rich don't make the poor poorer; they make the poor richer. Wealth builds on wealth, and material progress builds on material progress; the history of humankind is of a continually increasing material prosperity in the long-term perspective. GZranted some reap more benefit from this than do others, and sometimes the disparity is great, but in aggregate the overall march is towards greater prosperity for the human race as a whole.