I AM A FUCKING INTELLECTUAL“In a survey of 13 emerging markets by the Pew Global Attitudes Project in Washington, DC, the middle classes consistently give more weight to free speech and fair elections than do the poor, who are more concerned than the middle class about freedom from poverty. These differences hardly come as a shock. But they still matter because they mean that as the middle class grows, abstract ideas about governance come to play a bigger role in politics.”
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The new middle classes rise up.
The Economist, September 3rd 2011
They’re right. I don’t find this shocking at all.
