That system, in case you are unfamiliar is Capitalism. Capitalism has been under attack over the last several decades in our school systems, the media, and even by our own politicians as financial inequality worsens in the US. However capitalism is not to blame for these issues. Despite what you were taught in school, the US has not operated on capitalism in the better part of a century. What we have today is Crony Capitalism, or “Cronyism”, mixed in with something worse.