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These two countries are messy in part because they are both engines for global change. Europeans have a sense of optimism only about the past, stuck in their mausoleum economy because they are too sniffy to embrace American or Chinese
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“A four-year college degree and professional job define membership in this social class, and only about one in five white American children have at least one parent with these statuses.”
― Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall
― Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall
“These two countries are messy in part because they are both engines for global change. Europeans have a sense of optimism only about the past, stuck in their mausoleum economy because they are too sniffy to embrace American or Chinese practices. And the rest of the world is either too mature or too young to match the impact of these two superpowers. It is Americans and Chinese—Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, Wall Street, and Beijing—that will determine what people everywhere will think and what they will buy.”
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Ran’s 2025 Year in Books
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