当年的时机也再合适不过了：苏联帝国的崩溃和中国的对外开放为全球资本主义带来海量的劳动力供给 — — 额外多出近十亿工人 — — 令利润暴增并扼杀了所有西方国家劳动者的���资增长。
And the timing couldn’t have been more congenial: the Soviet empire’s collapse and China’s opening generated a surge of labor supply for global capitalism – a billion additional workers – that boosted profits and stifled wage growth throughout the West.