people on the left should stop saying, why do those people vote against their economic

interest? What they should do more often is listen to working-class Americans. Working-class

Americans of all races who tend to be much less left-wing on social issues than democratic elites are.

I'm Bethany McLean. Did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism and whether greed's a good idea?

And I'm Luigi Zengalis.

We have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.

And this is Capital Isn't, a podcast about what is working in capitalism.

First of all, tell me, is there some society you know that doesn't run on greed?

And most importantly, what isn't?

We ought to do better by the people that get left behind.

I don't think we shouldn't kill the capital system in the process.

As regular listeners know, here on Capitalism,

we're interested in exploring what's working in

capitalists and what isn't. Since it's easier to criticize and to provide alternatives,

all too often we focus on the isn't part. Today, we want to talk about when capitalists

works, or at least when it did work. For this episode of Capitalism was, we invited David Leonhardt, who is not only a New York

Times columnist, but also the author of ours was, note the past tense, The Shining Future,

a recent book about why the United States was the land of opportunities and why it is not

anymore.

In the book, David declared itself a strong

supporter of the capitalist system. Capitalism, he writes, remains the best system for delivering

rising standards to the greatest number of people, but only a certain type of capitalism.

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