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Favela Chic in the Fourth World

Favela Chic in the Fourth World

Drew Austin
Dec 17, 2020
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Venkatesh Rao wrote a short blog post last year about the perennially circulating idea that the United States is gradually becoming a third-world country. Rao argues that third world status is both too optimistic and too pessimistic an assessment, and that instead “a patchwork of post-industrial first and fourth-world conditions is emerging against a se…

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