@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

@tuban_muzuru If his gold spray painted white house isn't the absolute epitome of what America has become, I don't know what is.

I swear to Bob, one of the things that drives me mad about our current crop of #EpsteinClass #GildedAge asshats is that none of them do Obscene Wealth well.

If I were a heartless, soulless billionaire, I would have an airship. A fleet of dirigibles. I would fund a resurgence of steam punk aesthetic. I would have that spider mount from that terrible will smith movie. I would carry a walking stick, and use it liberally to make my point. I'm just saying, if I had "fuck you" money, I'd be having a lot more fun than these guys are.

If I were a billionaire with a soul...I wouldn't be a billionaire, because that's just immoral.