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Plutocracy the First Time Around: Revisiting the Great Upheaval and the First Gilded Age. Americans of the 19th century managed to mount a sustained economic, political and cultural resistance to plutocratic rule that is simply unimaginable today. Masses of people refused to accept that tooth-and-claw capitalism was their fate.
Americans Are Angry About Inequality. “Oh, people don’t even know. If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.”