Pakistan, May 30 -- For decades, the middle class represented the psychological backbone of modern capitalism. It was the class that worked, saved, invested cautiously, bought homes, educated children, planned retirements, and believed that discipline would eventually translate into stability. Governments proudly measured their expansion as proof of economic success. Banks built products around it. Politicians campaigned in its name. Entire societies were structured around the assumption that ordinary people would gradually move upward through ownership.That assumption is quietly collapsing.Across the world, a dangerous economic transition is taking place. The middle class is no longer evolving into wealth ownership at scale. Instead, it ...