The explanation may be that finance’s most recent golden age created a culture of entitlement so deep that it survives, for a while at least, even when boom turns spectacularly to bust.

对此的解释可能是，金融行业最近的黄金时代营造了一种特权的文化，这种特权文化影响如此之深，以致至少在一段时间内延续下来，即使繁荣已惊人地变成了萧 条。

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If the printing press ushered in the Age of Enlightenment, the internet brought us the Age of Entitlement.

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This year, she put out, "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, " with co-author and fellow psychologist W. Keith Campbell.

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Entitlement spending is the driver of deficits, but entitlement reforms, such as raising the retirement age or converting Medicare to grants, collide with the core of liberal statist thinking.

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