[mjbale116]

> A big part of this IMO is that “money won”, for lack of a better phrase. There is no real concept of selling out anymore. Being shamelessly focused on wealth accumulation seems to be socially acceptable in a way it wasn’t fifty years ago.

Fifty years ago you had Soviet Union.

An entity which provided an alternative to the US and Western Europe vassals freemarketeering shenanigans.

With the Soviet Union gone, and the communists in retreat, the Capitalists can shove their ideologies down the populace's collective throat.

It has already been established that "what we have here is the best system" and any failure to ascend in said system is a failure of the individual rather than the system's.

"Here is a feel good story of an immigrant that learned python and made it big in America, why can't you do the same?"