They just assumed that the Americans would bring the right people, and the country would blossom with freedom, prosperity, consumer goods, travel opportunities.
They were warmly received by the movement, which already saw prosperity, consumer choice, development, property rights and the market economy as mortal threats to the planet.
Many have entered the Chinese market, enticed by its 1.2 billion consumers and growing prosperity.
On-demand television is one of the more obvious symbols of Western prosperity and consumer ease.
Most European citizens like what the EU gives them in terms of freedom of movement, prosperity, security, consumer choice.
He writes that the "garbage crisis" is symptomatic of the "nation's troubled engagement with modern capitalism — reflecting a new prosperity and consumer boom, yet a reminder too of the terrible price often expected by that boom".
My dream of how the world should work was immediately disappointed, and over the years I witnessed how it became popular to blame government, how "citizen" became conflated with "consumer" and how the prosperity doctrine became a wildly popular religious and social belief -- and I bristled.
This, in turn, led to rapid employment creation, rising prosperity, and a consumer boom of 'new products' (consumer electronics and automobile industry).
Instead, financial institutions, governments and consumers tried to achieve prosperity through reckless lending and borrowing (much of it for housing).
The American economy is churning out unprecedented prosperity, and consumers (the creatures formerly known as "people") are snapping up vacation houses, fancy cars and other nifty appurtenances of the good life.
