A snapshot from the 1930s. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock /Getty Images)
Will we ever decide between a producerist American dream and a consumerist one?
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George Washington’s favorite Bible verse seems to have been Micah 4:4, in which the prophet envisions life in the New Jerusalem where every man “shall sit … under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid.” This image represents one version of the American dream: widely distributed, useful property that enables good work, ordered liberty, and secure communities.
