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But there are human problems that persist in the shadow of affluence."
"The central question," wrote Times correspondent Nicholas D. Kristof in his Hong Kong dispatch, "is whether Hong Kong amounts to a colossal Trojan horse: a prize so glorious that China's Communists cannot leave it outside the gates but which, once inside, will destroy those in power" with its irrepressible example of roiling capitalism and affluence, and its concentrated economic power.
Their analysis uncovered economic–epidemiological patterns more complex than the “Western” or “affluence” labels would suggest.
Dispersed government, European Union membership, affluence, and secularization could defuse ancient animosities.
If you assume a lower inflation rate and recalculate real incomes back to--say, 1950--you reach what seems to be a crazy conclusion: that in the early 1950s, the era of postwar affluence, most Americans were living below what we now regard as the poverty line.
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