NY Tmes Op-Ed Columnist: How We Are Ruining America

Well he was wrong about Japan but right about China in 1974. Have you been to China in the past few years? The major cities are now first world and Hong Kong has been there for a long long time. I think it’s pretty obvious that I’m using the term first world as short hand for people that do well in the modern competitive world that Brooks was talking about. I chose that term to avoid a description that might sound offensive. If you have a better term I’m open to giving it a try.