Socially, the coming of wealth has been accompanied by new values, (like environmental consciousness), shifts in the working class, the appearance of the "self-help" thinking, and other phenomena of modernization.
社會上，富裕之後，人們的價值觀也開始改變，如環保意識的抬頭、勞工階層的轉變，以及「自力救濟」的脫序現象等現代化過程中的陣痛，紛紛出現。