他在拉斯维加斯赌场周围走来走去，对他面前的奇观感到不可思议：七千人似乎对世界时的世界感到高兴。一个充满深刻而令人不安的经济问题的社会已经操纵了自己以掩盖这些问题，而欺骗的主要受益者是其金融中间人。
(He walked around the Las Vegas casino incredulous at the spectacle before him: seven thousand people, all of whom seemed delighted with the world as they found it. A society with deep, troubling economic problems had rigged itself to disguise those problems, and the chief beneficiaries of the deceit were its financial middlemen.)