““The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the standard of living and level of awareness of life’s pleasures and luxuries available to the educated and new middle classes, in all countries liberated from the “intelligent design” of totalitarian or semi-totalitarian governments that purported to resolve all social and economic problems, generally resulting in economic stagnation and mass impoverishment.””
