"Actually I was thinking more along the lines that it is just when a society achieves the maximum affluence for the maximum number of its citizens that the deterioration of the society from within begins. "
We have not achieved this, it is only an illusion. Maximum affluence is still in the control of a distinct minority. If that control is broken, the cycle of deterioration will not be realized.
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