In Budweiser’s ‘Dilly Dilly’ commercial is a fantasy glimpse about the rise of capitalism: the common man and common woman finally getting their chance to prosper.
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Beethoven’s music coincided with the explosion of wealth and freedom that came with classical liberalism, and America’s founding.
Capitalism changed everything. It exposed our entrenched assumptions about class as largely a hoax. Peasants could wear the clothing of the nobles. Socialism freezes the classes in place.
The Gilded Age was given a glorious present of material prosperity heretofore unknown in the whole history of humanity. We should learn from it.
