rbreich We're in the Second Gilded Age just like the first — when America's wealth was in the hands of a few, conspicuous consumption existed alongside homelessness and hunger, monopolies destroyed competition, big money corrupted politics, unions were busted, and wages were suppressed.
Where's the trust busters and TR when we need them
i am 3rd generation ussteel. my maternal grampa came here alone from slovenia, 12 yrs old, & went straight into the mill, staying for life. my father worked for them all our lives, then my brother & i...in the engineering department. my head exploded when he sold ussteel, & put himself on the board.
Trump doesn't care period. He's a figurehead for the billionaires
those billionaires are evil personified. they are no less evil than epstein, or john d. rockefeller, or henry clay frick. at least andrew carnegie spent the later years of his life giving it all away. "anyone who dies rich is a disgrace." one of the few gilded age families who are no longer rich
I concur
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