The identifying element for someone's wealth in the past was ………

In China, before reforms, it would have been hard for workers even to imagine the situation they enjoy today. in former days, if you had a nine inch black-and-white TV set that was the standard of wealth. Today if you don't have a colour TV, you are considered poor. But today inflation has affected people's consumption. Workers are dissatisfied and the government has taken note. In China five people are doing three people's work and five people are eating three people's food. Everybody thought that was socialism.