silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoThe Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption. | Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1223
arrow-up1223external-linkThe Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption. | Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squarePyroNeurosislinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·4 days agoI mean, it’s in the name. It wasn’t a golden age, it was just made to look that way.
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·4 days agoExactly. The thin covering of gold was meant to represent the small minority holding all of the wealth.
I mean, it’s in the name. It wasn’t a golden age, it was just made to look that way.
Exactly. The thin covering of gold was meant to represent the small minority holding all of the wealth.
Just libertarian cope