"Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens of two centures ago) be attained by all but a very few? And if it can be attained, what is the cost for everything else that we must sacrifice?"

Source: Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.127, Cambridge University Press