We simply must believe that the American rich are happy, else our confidence in the whole endeavor might be shaken. For of all the possible values of human society, one and only one is [the] truly acceptable goal of man in America. That goal is money, and let there be no sour grapes about it from the losers.

C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist, academic, author [Charles Wright Mills]

The Power Elite, 7.4 (1956)