silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption. | Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1233arrow-down13
arrow-up1230arrow-down1external-linkThe Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption. | Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarecircuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 days agoGreat wealth goes hand in hand with great corruption. People don’t earn a billion dollars. It has to be stolen, from many, at scale.
Great wealth goes hand in hand with great corruption. People don’t earn a billion dollars. It has to be stolen, from many, at scale.