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Is there something deeply morally wrong with the state of the world today?

I've been reading a lot on the economics of global capitalism lately, but usually economists and political scientists aren't talking about the ethical consequences of the system, mostly just about the economic problems. 

The economic system of global trade, etc., seems to me to have pretty big moral consequences, sweat shops, imperialist-type wars in the Middle East, massive poverty. Have many philosophers taken on the contemporary state of the world and the moral problems with how things are "set up"? It doesn't just have to be about capitalism...I'm curious just about how people see beyond that into just how most people live. Is the way that most people in developed countries live (in states mostly of conformity and passivity,consumerism, non-active political life) morally problematic?
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There has been plenty written about this. Pogge's *World Poverty and Human Rights*, Unger's *Living High and Letting Die*, Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," Risse's *On Global Justice*, and a million other things we could mention.