As a nation and a culture, the USA has decided that business and business concerns aren't as important as they once were. I'd go so far as to say that there has been a great deal of hostility toward businesses lately. Financial success in the mainstream media has become something to criticize and suspect as "ill gotten".

There's a reason why the USA continues to drop in business freedom rankings. It's not just this one guy's whining.

As an American, I don't want to run away from this criticism. I think we should own it and make decisions about what to do about it based upon acceptance of it, not rationalization and denial.