Democracy And Prosperity

Wednesday: Life, the Universe and Change! « The Confluence: "...What Darwin really said was that organisms that had the ability to adapt to their environments would survive. Right now, our country is failing to adapt. In part this is due to the Randian business culture that sees globalization and the race to the bottom in wage compensation as an inevitable thing. But the problem with that philosophy is that what allowed wealth and prosperity to flourish in the United States was the rule of law and democracy that gave average Americans the opportunity to succeed, protected from the most of the outrages of corruption that plague less prosperous countries. That is not to say that the industrialists didn’t have their way before The Great Depression. But the years following World War II saw one of the greatest expansions of wealth and equality that the world has ever known. And part of that was due to the fact that Americans who had good ideas were not confined to the lower stratums of society where birth determined their futures..."