Single income families still can't afford to buy a house in many populous areas, as they once could. Wealth is still quite stratified, and political influence is still overly concentrated in few hands. Gains for minorities are still under hostile pressure. Public spending on big ticket infrastructure and social services is still treated like poison by policymakers, even as urban areas choke on traffic and no private sector solution seems to be available. Education is still undersupported in many states, at a time when prosperity is leading to shortages of workers with high skill levels.
Monopolization is a worrying trend in various business sectors.
But every one of these conditions is an improvement over the corresponding situation in the eighties. And it happened because capital came out of isolation and reentered general circulation.