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For the first time in history more than half the world is middle-class
- tokenadult 18y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482717 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482717 The automated filter for detecting duplicate submissions doesn't always work.
- josefresco 18y ago"In China, for example, $3,000 a year may be enough in Chongqing or Chengdu, big cities in the west, but not in Beijing or Shanghai. So defining the middle class in absolute terms is hard." Which is why articles like this are mostly crap.