I think we still have in the background, and that's what capitalism does to us. The less wealth you have, the less likely you are to disconnect yourself. I'm not saying that these communities are not important but they can have a sort of a life on the margins of society. But once you're off, I mean you lose political power, that's all gone. It's actually really, commercialization has gone so far.
Economist and author Branko Milanovic of the Graduate Center, CUNY, talks about his book, Capitalism, Alone, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. They discuss inequality, the challenge of corruption in the Chinese system, and Milanovic's claim that in American capitalism, the texture of daily life is increasingly affected by the sharing economy and other opportunities.