Bad Commercialism
Men pay money to satisfy their desires.
This is the root of commercialism.
Businesses provide goods and services consumers not only need but also want as means to satisfy their desires. For businesses to prosper they boost demands of consumers and induce and strengthen their material desires.
Businesses do not mind if their goods and services help and save consumers or eventually harm them, so long as they can make a profit. In commercialism, making money is the most important thing and helping and saving people is a secondary matter.
Men can be rich by getting engaged in commercialism. So, rich men have to accept this philosophy of commercialism: there is no good or bad in business, since money is the absolute norm.
But men following commercialism are not neither good nor bad. They are bad simply as they deny the absolute value of love and justice.
So, the US society changed so much after WWII with advancement of commercialism. Commercialism do not need especially racial segregation as businesses want more customers. They want more African American clients. They want African Americans to earn money enough to allow them to buy more goods and services. So, after WWII, most aspects of racism were ended in the US society. It was not simple victory of minorities but great victory of commercialism.
Maybe commercialism has preceded capitalism. Even in the era of Christ Jesus and His Disciples, people sometimes betrayed others for money. Money never asked its owner how he earned it. It is commercialism.
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Act 9:17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Act 9:18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.