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by ectopod 1592 days ago
"Around that time" is referring to 2004.
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> Around that time, an anthropologist who had recently returned from Chinese refugee camps saw how people would sacrifice half their disposable income just to own an iPhone.

The original iPhone was released in June 2007. The 2008 Sichuan Earthquake matches up.

You're right of course. The original anecdote makes no sense then.