Capitalism's ubiquity today can make criticizing or even observing capitalism seem quaint. Aft er all, we have internalized its teachings to the point that our values and beliefs are largely aligned with those that are functional to capital accumulation. It is all so embedded that today a majority of American workers can live paycheck to paycheck with little to no social insurance and still largely accept that their position is one they deserve; the country's wealthy, meanwhile, benefi t from a seeming national allergy to any form of even mild tax reform that would shift more tax burden to the wealthy. Th e current landscape is quite diff erent from the one technocrats were confronting in 1919, but the two are most certainly connected.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 63