(Why) There Was No Jackpot at the End of Capitalism’s Rainbow
Capitalism’s Original Myth, and How America Proves It’s False
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9 min readMay 25, 2019
There’s a simple argument that American thinking has long made when it comes to capitalism. It goes like this. Capitalism brings many ills with it, sure. It makes people immoral, foolish, vain, short-sighted, selfish. It leads to strife and division and…