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Capitalism Makes Idealism Affordable
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"American capitalism is derided for its superficial banality, yet it has unleashed profound, convulsive social change," he writes. "Condemned as mindless materialism, it has burst loose a flood tide of spiritual yearning. The civil rights movement and the sexual revolution, environmentalism and feminism, the fitness and health-care boom and the opening of the gay closet, the withering of censorship and the rise of a 'creative class' of 'knowledge workers' -- all are the progeny of widespread prosperity."
-- John Stossel at RealClearPolitics.com
Stossel is still in an evangelical mood over the virtues of capitalism and libertarianism. There is a point to it. But you cannot help but think the world could be better, but maybe this feeling is itself part of the luxury of our system.
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"American capitalism is derided for its superficial banality, yet it has unleashed profound, convulsive social change," he writes. "Condemned as mindless materialism, it has burst loose a flood tide of spiritual yearning. The civil rights movement and the sexual revolution, environmentalism and feminism, the fitness and health-care boom and the opening of the gay closet, the withering of censorship and the rise of a 'creative class' of 'knowledge workers' -- all are the progeny of widespread prosperity."
-- John Stossel at RealClearPolitics.com
Stossel is still in an evangelical mood over the virtues of capitalism and libertarianism. There is a point to it. But you cannot help but think the world could be better, but maybe this feeling is itself part of the luxury of our system.