Again, too much credit for the (North)American consumer. They where not any envy in Latin America. We knew that their way of life was fucking the planet and not some kind of aspiration goal for the rest of the world (if everybody consumes like the average northamerican consumer, we would need five planet earths). Is easy to see the world under the white male colonist optic thinking that their way of life is somekind of universal desire, when they can only live like that because of the externalization cost of such way of life to the so called "developing countries". Recent close doors Free Trade Agreements are the new way of colonialism, but this time capitalist self-interest is not able to externalize all to the "third world" and is destroying its own north american middle class. This author is, as usual, too much anglo-centric to even consider the problems of a model, that for sure, has benefit him.
I think that this critical view is welcomed, but unfortunately lacks (as usual) of a wider non-angloeurocentric view of the capitalism model.
How we, as single authors can be entangled in more inclusive points of view? This is an open question I struggle, when I write.