silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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-square19fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down13
arrow-up1232arrow-down1external-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 · 3 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up26·edit-23 days agoConcentration of wealth drives the corruption and many other negative externalities. So we should very much focus on wealth first and foremost, no matter how hard it tries to divert attention from itself.
Concentration of wealth drives the corruption and many other negative externalities. So we should very much focus on wealth first and foremost, no matter how hard it tries to divert attention from itself.