The Merchants of Discontent

How the topics in a 1957 book set the stage for Instagram downlines.

America is a victim of its own success. While post-World War II America set the tone for world domination (as well as kicking off Women’s Rights), the era was filled with many problems. Overproduction was a big one. We got so good at making things that we focused instead on selling them. 

In the early fifties, the president of the National Sales Executiv…