Americans used to take pride in the unparalleled social mobility we always had in this country. Not any more: climbing is a sin now. Success is to be avoided at all costs. Even conservatives on this board do not recognize when they sound like socialists.
And, when socialists like Willie Green, take out all stops and use FR for socialist propaganda, hardly anybody notices. Nice.
The type that use Capatialism as an excuse.
Ahhh, sweet class envy.
"The type that use Capitalism as an excuse" is a knock on those who strive to "Be Somebody" at the expense of "Doing Something". These are the people who use Capitalism as a clean word for Corporate Strip Mining. They aren't good capitalists.
Even conservatives on this board do not recognize when they sound like socialists.
Don't forget that many of these so called "capitalist" are big time lefties like Soros, Buffet, and that Progressive insurance nutter. Hillary Clinton herself was on the BOD for Walmart, Starbucks and Apple (IIRC). These people aren't capitalists.
No, it isn't "sweet class envy", but a sincere concern for the state of corporate governance. I personally love big corporations. We need more Microsofts (even though Gates is a lefty) and Toyotas. I see Fast Company, as promoting more Global Crossings, Enron, Tycho's and other misinterpretations of Shareholder Value. Capitalism used to destroy capitalism.
Everyone loves that line from Wall Street...."Greed is good". Unfortunately they forget that it was Oliver Stone speaking through Michael Douglas. A left wing caricature of the free market. Greed isn't good, the ambitious and efficient creation of wealth is.
It's not class envy anymore than what our Founding Fathers had when they decided we would not be ruled by an Aristocracy --- there was a whole American Revolution over the desire to have a free society that would lead to a mostly middle class ---- imagine they even put phrases like "in the eyes of God, all men are created equal" --- that wasn't just put there for the hell of it.