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Schiendelmanyesterday at 4:46 PM1 replyview on HN

You might be surprised to hear that wealth concentration was worse a hundred years ago than it is now. It's very easy to assume otherwise when the numbers are so much larger now across the board.

https://americanbusinesshistory.org/superwealth-a-historical...


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ck2yesterday at 4:55 PM

yes almost all americans now have running water and indoor toilets

except we have more homeless than ever so they don't even have that

with taxes slashed for billionaires and safety-nets for food and healthcare being destroyed, we are actually headed back to 1926 on purpose

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