By Juliet B. Schor et al. We all know the catechism. Stock prices mint fortunes at the speed of a mouse click.
Billionaires live next door.
Yak herders carry Palm Pilots. And so on, et cetera, ad nauseam. It's not that growth in the aggregate economy is not real, not startling. But as social analysis, to say only that is to build a stool missing two legs. But you can look forever and not find a single mention of the second.