We created a virtuous cycle in which an ever growing middle class had the ability to consume more goods and services which created more and better jobs thereby stoking demand.

我们创造了这样一个循环圈：越来越多中产阶级有了消费能力，购买更多的商品和服务，因此创造了更多更好的就业岗位，这样就会产生国内需求。

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Gerber says the problems go right down the food chain, including the so-called organic goods that the new middle class are buying.

Gerber说，这种问题已经延伸到整个食物链，包括新兴中产阶级购买的所谓的有机食物。

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But they would love to amass consumer goods the way China's middle class does.

但他们确实是喜欢像中国的中产阶级那样积聚消费品。

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how can you have a platonically just city if most people in it, certainly most people of the auxiliary class are deprived of the pleasures ? and the goods that we desire?

如何建构一座柏拉图式的正义之城,如果大部份居住其中的人，尤其是那些后备阶级,所渴求的愉悦,与动产都己被剥夺？

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