Growing inequality in the advanced industrial countries was a long-predicted but seldom advertised consequence of globalization. Full economic integration implies the equalization of unskilled wages everywhere in the world, and, though we are nowhere near attaining this “goal,” the downward pressure on those at the bottom is evident.
先进工业化国家中不断增长的不平等是早就被预料到、但是很少提及的全球化的后果。完全的经济融合意味着全世界低技能工资平等化，而且，尽管我们根本尚未实现这一“目标”，底层人士的减薪压力却是显而易见的。