> The Gilded Age was a time of great prosperity in the US. No, wrong. Totally wr...

		burnt-resistor 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditi... > The Gilded Age was a time of great prosperity in the US. No, wrong. Totally wrong. It was a time of immense inequality. Oddly enough, these days are even worse than then in terms of income and wealth ratios, but different in absolute effects of penury.