🇺🇸 Discussion: The Second Gilded Age

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[squeekness]

An orange balloon releasing smpty words oh hot air and bluster. The entire man is a scam.

 

[blueharvest]

‘The reign of terror is over’: my weird weekend partying with the triumphant tech right

As Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg gathered for Trump’s inauguration, crypto diehards and members of the Paypal Mafia celebrated a new era for the Magaverse

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade, report finds

The warning comes from an expert roundtable led by researchers from King's and the Fairness Foundation

www.kcl.ac.uk

 

[blueharvest]

America’s Abandonment of the Poor

Five years since the pandemic began, the ravages it exposed persist.

newrepublic.com

 

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'Extremely Dangerous Time': Sanders Warns of Oligarchs' War on Working Class | Common Dreams

Sen. Bernie Sanders warns that oligarchs like Elon Musk are waging war on the U.S. working class and democracy.

www.commondreams.org

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Big Tech Hijacked Steve Bannon's Movement

The 71-year-old populist helped turn Trumpism into a cult. Now he's watching on the sidelines as oligarchs devour the country.

gizmodo.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

America Hates Mark Zuckerberg

It’s still learning to hate Elon Musk.

gizmodo.com

 

[squeekness]

No, I'm pretty sure a lot of Americans hate Musk plenty right now. I know I do.

 

[Lily Adler]

No, I'm pretty sure a lot of Americans hate Musk plenty right now. I know I do.

Dem leadership still cater to Silicon Valley thinking they can win them back by pivoting to the Right, though.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Bluesky

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Turning the clock back to the age of the robber barons has long been the wealthy republucans primary goal. Getting rid of those hard won labour rights from the early 20 century. They want to bring back the trapped working poor that made up huge swathes of the American population a century ago before economic, legal and social reforms changed the country.

 

[squeekness]

Turning the clock back to the age of the robber barons has long been the wealthy republucans primary goal. Getting rid of those hard won labour rights from the early 20 century. They want to bring back the trapped working poor that made up huge swathes of the American population a century ago before economic, legal and social reforms changed the country.

Yeah, well I'm hoping the poor aren't going to sit for it this time.

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Google’s Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday

The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.

www.nytimes.com

"I recommend being in the office at least every weekday," he wrote in a memo posted internally on Wednesday evening that was viewed by The New York Times. He added that "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity" in the message to employees who work on Gemini, Google's lineup of A.I. models and apps.

 

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[blueharvest]

Since 1975, $79 Trillion Has Flowed From Bottom 90% to Top 1% in US: Analysis | Common Dreams

Sanders used the findings of a recent working paper to denounce Republicans' determination to pass tax cuts that will benefit wealthy Americans the most.

www.commondreams.org

 

[Herofan]

I do think it's interesting that Gilded Age is very identified with Lincoln's protege/successor Grant and yet not with Lincoln himself, and that despite the period being such a controversy if not disdained the Republicans did dominate so much for so long (well corruption probably is particularly likely when one party predominates due to the other being considered just not an acceptable option at all).

Turning the clock back to the age of the robber barons has long been the wealthy republucans primary goal.

Those for the period and its trends in general would be pro-mass immigration (Lincoln himself for both immigration and tariffs), the era was one of both mass immigration although also of mass resentment of it, mass public resentment of it but it still continuing, not being prevented by law until later.

The period as well as the '90s saw wealth increases concentrated at top and yet also real wages generally substantially increasing, pretty hard to see how mass economic growth that does help everyone would not correlate with it particularly benefiting some and therefore also increasing income inequality.

 

[blueharvest]

Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said repeatedly, “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913.

apnews.com

 

[Lily Adler]

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

We don't want a Caesar: How Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took a dig at Mark Zuckerberg | World News - The Times of India

US News: At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took a shot at Mark Zuckerberg, emphasizing the need for decentralization in social media amidst rising frustrations with algorithm-driven platforms. Graber advocates for a user-driven approach to online discourse, challenging the centralized control of...

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'

Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

mashable.com

 

[Lily Adler]