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What is the middle class?
Last Saturday, the NYT ran a piece on Indonesia’s economic miracle. “After Years of Inefficiency, Indonesia Emerges as an Economic Model.” That the South Asian island nation is rapidly growing wasn’t much of a surprise. How the piece defines middle class was:
“In Jakarta, worsening traffic and a proliferation of megamalls are seen as signs of the growing strength of the middle class.”
Is the middle class traffic and megamalls?