Originally published on July 5, 2021 7:00 am
The Throughline team has been thinking about capitalism a lot these days. It s hard not to when so many people are struggling just to get by.
Capitalism is an economic system, but it s also so much more than that. It s become a sort of ideology, this all-encompassing force that rules over our lives and our minds. It might seem like it s an inevitable force, but really, it s a construction project that took hundreds of years and no part of it is natural or just left to chance.
So here s what we did. First, we wanted to look at what makes American capitalism distinct, if it is even distinct? Is it uniquely individual, uniquely efficient, uniquely cutthroat? Like, these are all the things that we ve been thinking about a lot.
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