onthemountainThis is why I love historians! They can show you who’s screwing you, how, and how long they’ve been getting away with it. The why? Guess we have to figure that out. Complete moral bankruptcy? #history #poverty #oligarchy #greed #climatechange
December 4, 2024
In 1883, as the Republican Party moved into full-throated support for the industrialists who were concentrating the nation’s wealth into their own hands while factory workers stayed above the poverty line only by working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, Yale sociologist William Graham Sumner responded to those worried about the extremes of wealth and poverty in the country with his book
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