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We learn that heroin has breached its ghetto quarantine: "[C]hildren of affluence are venturing where once the poor and desperate nodded out.
Dispersed government, European Union membership, affluence, and secularization could defuse ancient animosities.
But there are human problems that persist in the shadow of affluence."
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.
Their analysis uncovered economic–epidemiological patterns more complex than the “Western” or “affluence” labels would suggest.