Most Americans who came from the Yankee-Protestant environment, whether they were reformers or conservatives, wanted economic success to continue to be related to personal character, wanted the economic system not merely to be a system for the production of sufficient goods and services but to be an effectual system of incentives and rewards. The great corporation, the crass plutocrat, the calculating political boss, all seemed to defy these desires.
I doubt there was ever much of a linkage between morality and economic success, no mater what Calvinists claim that Earthly success is a sign that one is among God's Chosen.
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