{"id":24704,"date":"2019-08-14T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T00:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=24704"},"modified":"2019-08-14T16:38:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T00:38:25","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1090\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If the free-wheeling, free-market system of the 20th century really has hardened into an oligarchy in the 21st, it could foreshadow collapsing trust in institutions\u2014some of which we&#8217;ve already seen\u2014and political instability. Without the promise that bold risk-taking and\/or hard work can make them rich, what will young Americans do with their restless ambition? Many will keep working hard and be willing to accept the paltry returns, but an increasing number will turn against the system itself. Don\u2019t be surprised if socialism, or other anti-capitalist ideologies, becomes the next hot growth industry.&#8221; \u2014 Bloomberg <em>columnist <strong>Noah Smith<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-08-14\/it-s-gotten-too-hard-to-strike-it-rich-in-america?cmpid=BBD081419_CUS&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=190814&amp;utm_campaign=closeamericas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">on the demise<\/a> of the American dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If the free-wheeling, free-market system of the 20th century really has hardened into an oligarchy in the 21st, it could foreshadow collapsing trust in institutions\u2014some of which we&#8217;ve already seen\u2014and political instability. Without the promise that bold risk-taking and\/or hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1090\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24705,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24704\/revisions\/24705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}