长时间的后工业革命繁荣把低技能工人的工资推高到了前所未闻的高度 — — 让他们能够觊觎（至少能够梦想）富人和名人的生活方式，但这并不是很好的未来指南。
The long post-Industrial Revolution boom, which carried unskilled workers’ wages to previously unheard-of heights – keeping them within shouting (or at least dreaming) distance of the lifestyles of the rich and famous – is not necessarily a good guide to what will come next.