Overall though, it is true that in most places growing income disparities are a reasonable proxy for growing status competition.

总之，在大多数地方，日益扩大的收入不平等和日益增加的地位竞争，两者的确是正相关的关系。

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The most important factor pushing reform is China's large and growing urban-rural income disparities.

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The area's leftist past may also help to explain a growing resentment about the huge income disparities of the Seattle region.

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