Credit cards come in gold and platinum. Everyone has had the experience of suddenly overhearing Hebrew while abroad. Nine times out of 10, the conversation revolves around the price of something. Only the dimensions have changed. An Israeli labor law professor teaching in the United States flattered an American student by inviting her out for coffee.
Privatization is the name of the game.
Sure, but the insurance companies compete in a big-guns advertising blitz, luring consumers to sign up for costly supplementary policies. The early socialists considered money to be the root of all evil. Their grandchildren are busily scrambling to become millionaires. But pendulums have a way of swinging back. Perhaps the offspring of the new industrialists and entrepreneurs will become scholars and poets and philosophers.