Is America in a New Gilded Age? Wealth, Power, and Democracy

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• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Give that the gilded age was characterized by a massive spike in wages… No. No, we aren’t. Or rather, yes, we are, but only for a very select few people. For the rest of us, we’re entering into a new depression.

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  More like an actual decline and fall, whereas the 19th century Gilded Age was unbridled prosperity for some and unrestricted exceptionalism for most.

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

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