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10. The wealth sucking billionaires have been at it for a while now.

Reply to popsdenver (Reply #6)

Sun Nov 30, 2025, 12:44 PM

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The second gilded age started on November 4, 1980. They ended the New Deal Era, broke the Social Contract, transformed and financialized the economy, crippled unions, froze infrastructure development, increased national debt, lowered relative wages, and created a lot of glamorous vanity projects. Worst of all, they made it seem normal.

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The age of capitalist decay: [View all] applegrove Sunday OP

Hear, hear! TRUTH ZDU Sunday #1

That's how I see it. Borogove Sunday #2

Don't dispair. Teddy Roosevelt and FDR broke them in our past. They can be broken again. flashman13 Sunday #3

Gilded Age repeat. paleotn Sunday #4

Good commentary Paleotn popsdenver Sunday #6

The wealth sucking billionaires have been at it for a while now. thought crime Sunday #10

EXACTLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! popsdenver Sunday #12

Sort of like uranium but it decays a lot faster, and just Uncle Joe Sunday #5

In a nutshell. hay rick Sunday #7

Yup. Personally, I like the 'Nordic Model'. Joinfortmill Sunday #8

You cant have endless growth slightlv Sunday #9

Nazi saluting oligarch Elon Musk disagrees... thought crime Sunday #11