Two narratives of economic development are presented. The first highlights contemporary global wealth and income inequality. The second illustrates historical aggregate gains in global wealth and income. Within these two broad narratives of economic development, protests and social movements will arise to modulate feelings of unfairness and deprivation. A new theory of social movements is developed. Collective remembering and collective imagining can inform feelings of unfairness, frustration, and relative deprivation in the present. This theory highlights the importance of a temporal account of the development of social movements within democracies that allow for the expression of civic discontent without brutalization. The theory predicts aggregate global economic development, with unequal economic gains, will always necessitate social movements to modulate economic inequality and circumvent perceived and actual hardship. The implications of this theory for understanding globalization, social movements, and creating fairer democratic societies are discussed.

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为什么富裕的世界会有更多的公民不满：社会运动的无限理论

提出了两种经济发展的叙述。第一个重点是当代全球财富和收入不平等。第二个例子说明了全球财富和收入的历史累计增长。在这两个关于经济发展的广泛叙述中，将出现抗议活动和社会运动，以调节不公平和贫困的感觉。发展了一种新的社会运动理论。集体记忆和集体想象可以传达当前的不公平，沮丧和相对匮乏的感觉。该理论强调了对民主国家内部社会运动发展进行时间描述的重要性，这种民主允许公民表达不满而不会遭受残酷对待。该理论预测全球经济总发展，经济收益不平等，将始终需要社会运动来调节经济不平等并规避感知和实际的困难。讨论了该理论对理解全球化，社会运动和建立更公正的民主社会的意义。