https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/billionaire-boom-jackson-teton-wyoming.html
Anyone paying attention knows about the ongoing devolution into a gilded age. We've been aware of "the 1%” for at least a decade and a half, since the Occupy movement that popularized it. What doesn't register in all the talk about this 1% is the role of those in the top lower percentages between them and the median who facilitate the devolution because they see their own interests in a similar light.
#gildedage
America’s Billionaires Continue to Flock to Wyoming

Jackson, Wyo., has long been a refuge for the rich. But the last five years saw a boom in wealth of a kind never before seen. Across the country, the 2017 tax cuts minted hundreds of new billionaires.

The New York Times