Opinion: We shouldn’t idolize wealth. But we shouldn’t demonize it either.
By David Von Drehle David Von Drehle Columnist focusing on national affairs and politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 26 at 3:05 PM For Americans of a certain age, Henry Bloch was a most winsome anomaly — a celebrity bookkeeper. On television, in magazines and newspapers, the co-founder of H&R Block was one of the best-known pitchmen of the 1970s, a harbinger of spring as sure as the tulip.
I say “traditionally” because our political culture is losing touch with this model of success. Among Republicans, there is rampant idolizing of wealth for its own sake, shorn of expectations. Among Democrats, wealth is increasingly seen as a problem to be attacked. The public-spirited Henry Bloch-type may become homeless in the national debate.
The Republican Party will be in no position in 2020 to lift up ideals of generosity and self-sacrifice — not with Trump at the top of the ticket. Rand’s ethical principle that a person’s “own happiness is his highest moral purpose” makes the Henry Bloch model of citizenship not just superfluous, but downright suspect among today’s Trump Republicans.
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