This huge increase in worldwide inequality reflects the MASSIVE transfer of wealth by the use of a fiat-script from everyone else in the world, to those who own and print it. Those in the Bretton Woods "club" get their cut in accordance to their historical participation.  US-NRE first, managed by Israel of course, Britain next, ditto, the rest of the Anglo-Sphere, followed by a few minor partners such as France and Germany, along with facilitating countries (the "petro" part of the petro-script system) such as the Parasitical Gulf State Regimes. 

By the way, a lot of people have tried to determine precisely when the Soviet Union "lost" the cold war.  Some pick the seventies when the petro-dollar was established, or the eighties when they were lured into Afghanistan, some say when the Berlin wall came tumbling down, or when they actually, completely, finally, imploded. --  All wrong. -- The Soviet Union lost the cold war the very day the Bretton Woods system was established in 1944. From that point forward, it  NEVER, EVER, had a chance. Not that the Soviet Union was ever going to succeed under the tyrannical, murderous, yoke of Euro-Kazarian imposed Bolshevik Communism. 

It wasn't designed to of course, it was all just part of the Banksters' "Great Game", their highly profitable arrangements of "constructive instability", "dynamic tension", "creative destruction", or "play action". 

If it wasn't for the Russians stupid, stubbornness, the Soviet Union would have collapsed a long time before it finally did.  It appears Russians do indeed have a great capacity for needless suffering. - For more on this issue see the definition shown below.....

Bolshevik Communism - Def.  A Long-Term Frame & False Consciousness imposed on the expanding Russian Empire and its people in 1917 by Kazarians at the behest of the British Rothschilds et all, to destroy Russia's society, the Russian Empire, and most importantly, Russia's Central State Bank, and end the threat Russia posed to the Kazarian's brand new Federal Reserve Syndicate they had recently established in the United States four years earlier in 1913.  A country which they had also slated to take over Britain's imperial assets. This would actually be facilitated by removing Russia from WWI (which was done) and allowing Germany and Britain to bankrupt each other.  The Kazarian Banksters would, as a consequence, make even more money from the interest bearing Bankster debts created for both countries and through their machinations, (as part of the "Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle"), start WWII to pull the US-NRE out of the Great Depression and establish their Bankster fiat script as the new world's "reserve" currency.  --  Remember "all wars [since 1850] are Bankster wars" (credit Michael Rivero).  The goal is to put all entities, especially nation-states, deeply into debt to the Banksters.