Special clauses were also inserted to cater to a particular western European anxiety: the prospect that the EU's rules on free movement of people and labour will lead to a flood of poor Muslim immigrants heading west.
But, the very next ball, England's talismanic all-rounder was also heading back to the pavilion, the victim of a poor decision by Tiffin when trapped by a Zaheer delivery that pitched outside the line of leg-stump.
And what societies believe about how fluid they are matters almost as much as the reality: if America's poor ever start to believe they will never get rich, the place will be heading for trouble.