Wealth was valued over work, selfishness over sacrifice, greed over responsibility, the right to organize undermined rather than strengthened.

财富比工作更有价值，自私超越奉献，贪婪超越责任，组织的权力不是加强而是削弱。

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"To recover your wealth you have to work over many years to rebuild your capacities, to produce goods and services to sell to the world, to compete with the eastern countries, " he says.

BBC: 'Europe is poor so should live within its means'