Many have reduced their current levels of food consumption, shifted to lower quality and less expensive foods, or deferred critical expenditures on health and education.

很多家庭都减少了食品消费，转而消费质量较差且更便宜的食品，或将医疗和教育等关键支出延后。

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Wealth, or capital, is simply deferred consumption that is put to work.

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Deferred consumption, money not spent, is the textbook definition of capital.

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This asset forms my savings, my deferred consumption.

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