America's new culture war

This is an excellent (is somewhat long) article in the Washington Post today on our emerging new culture war- free enterprise vs. government control. There are many good points in this piece but since we are concerned about markets and wealth let's focus on two.

In the last sentence of the initial paragraph the author (Arthur Brooks) states that the two competing visions of America are not reconcilable. We must choose. The other point that caught my attention is his statement towards the end of the article about the purpose of free enterprise " human flourishing, not materialism". That indeed is a core belief that is not repeated often enough.