Neither traditionally disadvantaged communities like the minorities, concentrated in city ghettos, nor newly disadvantaged workers from the majority community in semirural areas, have been able to take advantage of the liberalised economy. Indeed, across the developed world, as we will see in the next chapter, an elite upper-middle class looked to its own interests while abandoning the economically mixed community. From leading the fight against vested interests, the upper middle class became part of the vested interests. The unfettered market was now in ascendance, with an ideologically and
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Upper middle class joined the vested interest
