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America’s capitalist system doesn’t manufacture goods or services, so much as it manufactures needs.  We could supply the country’s needs off of an average three-hour work-day, so we need to sell people a life of consumption, always needing more, to justify the existence of our capitalistic hierarchy.  Sound like the rantings of a Communist agitator or washed-up hippie?  Try the founding captains of industry who created the world as we know it today in the 1920’s.  Jeff Kaplan’s article in the latest Orion provides an excellent, concise history of the most important parts of American history you’ve probably never heard of.  - Jason