In 2002 I visited Argentina during its freefall. The country had just devalued and defaulted, and the latest president, instead of merely resigning, had fled in a helicopter. Yet Buenos Aires – like Athens today – still looked like a middle-class city. People lived in apartment blocks with doormen and drove to restaurants in imported cars. At dinner one night, a photographer told me that just that day he had realised he’d dropped into the third world. When had it dawned? “When Amazon refused my credit card,” he said.
2002年，我到訪阿根廷時，該國經濟正在“自由落體”。當時的阿根廷，貨幣貶值，債務違約，前任總統并未僅僅辭職了事，而是乘坐直升飛機逃離了阿根廷。不過，布宜諾斯艾利斯——與當下的雅典一樣——看起來仍像一座中產階級色彩的城市。人們住在有看門人的公寓樓里，開著進口汽車去飯店就餐。一天晚上，一位攝影師在吃飯時告訴我，就在當天，他才意識到自己已經跌入了第三世界。從什么時間開始的？“在亞馬遜(Amazon)拒絕我的信用卡時，”他表示。
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