Last week on Blame Capitalism, the Golden Age of Capitalism was ending, but what a time

it had been.

During the Golden Age, in 1960, one of the big companies, Eastman Kodak, would hand out

a booklet to new employees.

It promised,

Wages are fair, working conditions are safe, employment is generally steady, folks get a

square deal.

So tuition, vacation, dividends, cradle to grave perks from a company.

But Kodak didn't hire black people, and black people started to protest.

All over America, groups that had been left out of the Golden Age of Capitalism were protesting.

And two men with very different ideas of what a capitalist corporation like Kodak should

be, and who it should be for, were going to wage war over this.

One of them would win and change the course of American capitalism.

Coming up on today explained, the original backlash against woke capitalism.

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