I suspect it's the other way around - as long as people are not hungry or suffering, critical mass in (most of) the west is impossible; so they drip it slowly t

I suspect it's the other way around - as long as people are not hungry or suffering, critical mass in (most of) the west is impossible; so they drip it slowly to keep it from dying. When Greenwald started publishing, he said something to the effect of "there's enough publishable material here for the next 10 years or so". Still a long way to go, I guess.