In 2002 I visited Argentina during its freefall. The country had just devalued and defaulted, and the latest president, instead of merely resigning, had fled in a helicopter. Yet Buenos Aires – like Athens today – still looked like a middle-class city. People lived in apartment blocks with doormen and drove to restaurants in imported cars. At dinner one night, a photographer told me that just that day he had realised he’d dropped into the third world. When had it dawned? “When Amazon refused my credit card,” he said.
2002年，我到访阿根廷时，该国manbetx20客户端下载 正在“自由落体”。当时的阿根廷，货币贬值，债务违约，前任总统并未仅仅辞职了事，而是乘坐直升飞机逃离了阿根廷。不过，布宜诺斯艾利斯——与当下的雅典一样——看起来仍像一座中产阶级色彩的城市。人们住在有看门人的公寓楼里，开着进口汽车去饭店就餐。一天晚上，一位摄影师在吃饭时告诉我，就在当天，他才意识到自己已经跌入了第三世界。从什么时间开始的？“在亚马逊(Amazon)拒绝我的信用卡时，”他表示。
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