That is one of the reasons why I think Esperanto has too much more to offer to the World as an international language than English.
I'm not an activist. Besides, I enjoy so many features of English.
But the resources one must invest to learn it as a second language make it unreachable to a huge amount of people around the globe, providing breeding ground to the formation of "linguistic elites" and deepening social and economic inequalities.
Having contact with poor people in my country and others and being a non-native speaker myself make me very aware of that.