“Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as "superconsumers," able to carry consumer demand all on their own.”

— Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)

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