Leaving the Goalposts Where They Are While Declaring the Aim Is Now to Not Hit the Goal

Somewhere along the way, during the last 50 years, the critique of capitalism changed from condemning its failure to spread the wealth to condemning the very opposite. Suddenly the great sin of capitalism was that it was producing too much, making us all too materialistic, fueling economic growth at the expense of other values, spreading middle-class decadence, and generally causing society to be too caught up in productivity and too focused on the standard of living.

Jeffrey A. Tucker, "The Decivilizing Effects of Government"