它反映了这样一个事实：在过去的几十年里，人们的总体生活水平有所提高，并且避免了大规模战争或经济匮乏等大规模社会创伤。

It reflected the fact that these decades saw a climb in general standards of living and avoidance of mass societal traumas like full-scale war or economic deprivation.

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但(消费)支出匮乏对于经济增长而言却是个问题。

But that lack of spending is a problem for economic growth.

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礼物经济在物质不匮乏的远古时期就已经存在。

Gift economies exist in primitive cultures where scarcity is not a problem.

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