#Trump #BigBeautifulBill is cutting funds to programs that all working class and retired people benefit from, especially to #MedicAid. Also giving big #corporations additional #tax breaks, #deregulation of barriers that reduce #corruption in #finance, #crypto and #health. All while using #immigrants as #scapegoats.
This is what #capitalism always reverts to. A new #GuildedAge.
The #WorkingClass #Proletariat need #Solidarity, #Socialism, a real #democracy.
Just gonna drop this here for no reason in particular.
Texte du média #Politico, qui examine la situation aux #États-Unis en faisant une comparaison avec l'époque dite du "Gilded age" (environ 1860-1890).
Les points de cette comparaison : l'influence corporative, #ca et la politique économique des #tarifs.
@mloxton
Think back about being in school, having dealt with people at work, maybe church or temple if that's you, having to deal with any collection of people. How many harbor no venality? How many when pushed won't protect what's theirs? The problem here is Power, and the ambition to become powerful, success in doing so, the exhilaration, maybe even a sense of misguided responsibility. People act in their own interests, but even if most ultra wealthy are more or less "stand up" as most of their fellow humans, human nature predicts a few will act only in their own interests—a few with the power to ruin everybody's day, not just their neighbors'.
Read American history. This has happened before. Build. Concentrate power. Regulate. Tear down regulations. Concentrate power. History repeats. Stories of kings and peasants.
People always get hurt.
#economics #populism #writer #history #guildedage #author #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon
⬆️ @GreenFire
>> Donald Trump named his kid Barron as in Baron Trump.
Robber barons of the #GuildedAge have returned.
#Trump also called himself #JohnBarron, like a child who thought he was fooling everyone.
Like #HannaMontana, for example — fooling everyone just by putting on a wig 😂
I'd much rather Don called himself #DonQuixote
@samfromtheus No private trains because air travel is so much faster now. Back in the #GuildedAge, before air travel was a thing, private rail cars were how the rich travelled.
https://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/Story-How-the-Fricks-Traveled-The-Westmoreland
When a tycoon goes shopping "Addicted to Art (1911)"
https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/addicted-to-art-1911 #Histodon #Histodons #History #Art #GuildedAge
My high school cafeteria in #Fairhaven #Massachusetts had a vaulted ceiling using the herringbone tile system patented in 1885 by Raphael #Guastavino. The high school was built in 1806, financed by industrialist Henry H. Rogers, Rockefeller's right hand man at Standard Oil, and a native of the town. The building was designed by Watertown, MA, architect Charles Brigham. The building is still our high school today, now with a modern wing added in 2000.
The parallels between the tech lords of the early 21st century and the industrial lords of the late 19th century are so similar it’s stupid. #GuildedAge
For #nyc #history junkies and #urbanplanning nerds, this week’s #BoweryBoys podcast has a great show on the #guildedage reformer Jacob Riis
@rbreich I read several years ago that it isn’t quite like the #inequality of the first #GuildedAge- it’s WORSE. And by now it must be even worser
Beautiful first floor restoration of the #GuildedAge Barker Mansion in #MichiganCityIN Open to the public in December. #history #HoosierMast https://barkermansion.org/
Just joined! My #Introduction:
I have two current interests - thus my posts on Mastodon are likely to be a mix of both.
- Author of a #HistoricalFiction Series "The Puzzle Box Chronicles" set in #GuildedAge #Boston I'm also involved with a few #IndependentPublishing groups and try to be supportive of that community.
- I also run a blog focused on news related to the troubling growth of #Disinformation and #MisInformation. I enjoy talking with people here who help fight that good fight.
We live in the #GuildedAge 2.0
:batman: @jimmy_dore@birdsite
