We aren’t in the Gilded Age, but the people running companies remind me of this Great Gatsby quote:
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We aren’t in the Gilded Age, but the people running companies remind me of this Great Gatsby quote:
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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@skinnylatte Oh I think we are in a new Gilded Age. Income inequality has surpassed the old Gilded Age.
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@arrrg sure. Just with fewer cool parties this time. Or fewer people who get to party.
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@skinnylatte i wonder how many normals were partying in the gilded age. now the elite are more pervie and creepy, it seems.
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@arrrg now they don’t expect anything to be cleaned up. They just keep on rampaging
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Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
I think we’re in a gold-plated age. The current obscenely wealthy are tawdry, chintzy and selfish (their herald being the crass/boorish DJT).
At least the robber barons of the 1800s-1920s sunk buckets of money into public shrines to their largesse. Anyone who has visited the Chicago Cultural Center (former public library) knows that that bldg wouldn’t be built today.
Among other jewel-encrusted things, the showpiece is a legit Tiffany dome in the main reading room.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Molly Cantrell-Kraig ✅ last edited by
@mckra1g @skinnylatte In the immediate post-Civil War era they used a term that maybe fits today's circumstances better: the Age of Shoddy.
The Age of Shoddy
War profiteering enriched opportunists—and shortchanged soldiers. Every now and again, a news article surfaces on the subject of war profiteering. The
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