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1) capitalism and the money is all you need has gradually worn down all other moral and ethical institutions over the decades. Without something like WWII to reset a popular ethos in a uniform manner, it's a gradual slide downward

2) maybe the universality of team sports in the United States, where again winning is all that matters and if you aren't bending the rules and burdening the referees, you aren't trying.

3) this all gets cranked up based on socioeconomic stress, which also is being steadily ratcheted up each decade.




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