6. Treating of poverty or lack of success as a character flaw rather than just “it is what it is” 7. Systematic downplaying of the role of chance (even by the demonizers who overweight determinate structural oppression by the wealthy/successful in social explanations)
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Btw, inequality, wealth concentration, cronyism, financialization of everything: all these are not “problems”. The are natural consequences of W/S values and enjoy basic moral sanction. If wealth+success = good, anything that favors it can at worst be inefficient, not bad.
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The “problem” America has with these things is that they let “undeserving” people get wealthy and successful, and prevent greater peaks being reached by bigger Big Men, not because they make the poor more miserable or prisons more terrible.
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America has more compassion for Bezos being harassed by Trump than people scammed by Trump University. More compassion for a well-funded startup being blocked from a market by a protectionist crony sector than people being actively hurt by the social costs of that sector.
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Where to, should it be the latter?
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No clue.
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1970s quip (not unfounded as it were) by Friedenberg via Allan Bloom: Social scientists are always giving themselves hernias trying to see something about America Tocqueville did not see 1835/40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America …
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Grow or die is almost a very old and familiar sounding American slogan
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The oversimplified idea from economics that without growth, it all becomes a zero sum game.
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