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In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Community, Atmosphere, Opulence
John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.