It is failing because greed has become the norm. People's attitudes have gone from help your family and friends to help yourself. It has moved away from communi

It is failing because greed has become the norm. People's attitudes have gone from help your family and friends to help yourself. It has moved away from community to individualism. That's what's changed. I thought the United States was all about rugged individualism and self-interest? Either way, individualism is not the problem, and has always been a staple of American life. Nor is it "greed" (which has always been present), unless you also define spontaneous order brought by catallaxy to be a form of greed. The issue is the Protestant work ethic has always been nothing but a feel-good tale that is obviously and demonstrably a plain falsehood, or at best an oversimplification. Of course, it's a part of cultural identity and gives people the fuzzies, so it remains believed due to the illusion of control it brings. Also because people are inclined into thinking in terms of the just-world fallacy, again so as to maintain illusion of control and teleological certainty.