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February 3, 2013

The World's Virtual Middle Class Rises

Thomas Friedman, New York Times

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Leaders beware: Your people don’t need to be in the middle class anymore, in economic terms, to have the education, tools and mind-set of the middle class — to feel entitled to a two-way conversation and to be treated like citizens with real rights and decent governance.

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