#gildedage — Public Fediverse posts
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"Living through the #ShilledAge sucks ass, but we can build something better."
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"Living through the #ShilledAge sucks ass, but we can build something better."
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chandelier
dreaming… a random bit
** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **
medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha
health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha
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#1East75thStreet #antique #architecture #boardRoom #ceiling #chandelier #commonwealthFund #dailyPost #decor #design #EdwardSHarknessHouse #gildedAge #gildedAgeMansion #harknessHouse #HarknessMansion #interiorDesign #JamesGambleRogers #landmark #landmarkBuilding #landmarked #light #lightFixture #limestone #litUp #lookUp #manhattan #newYorkCity #nyc #oakPanels #panels #photography #postaday #upperEastSide #venetianStyle #vintage #weeklyPhotoChallenge -
chandelier
dreaming… a random bit
** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **
medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha
health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha
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#1East75thStreet #antique #architecture #boardRoom #ceiling #chandelier #commonwealthFund #dailyPost #decor #design #EdwardSHarknessHouse #gildedAge #gildedAgeMansion #harknessHouse #HarknessMansion #interiorDesign #JamesGambleRogers #landmark #landmarkBuilding #landmarked #light #lightFixture #limestone #litUp #lookUp #manhattan #newYorkCity #nyc #oakPanels #panels #photography #postaday #upperEastSide #venetianStyle #vintage #weeklyPhotoChallenge -
windows
dreaming… a random bit
** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **
medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha
health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha
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#1East75thStreet #antiqueGlass #architecture #boardRoom #commonwealthFund #dailyPost #decor #design #EdwardSHarknessHouse #gildedAge #gildedAgeMansion #harknessHouse #HarknessMansion #interiorDesign #JamesGambleRogers #landmark #landmarkBuilding #landmarked #limestone #manhattan #newYorkCity #nyc #oakPanels #opaqueWindows #photography #postaday #upperEastSide #venetianStyle #vintage #weeklyPhotoChallenge #windowArt #windows -
windows
dreaming… a random bit
** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **
medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha
health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha
Rate this:
#1East75thStreet #antiqueGlass #architecture #boardRoom #commonwealthFund #dailyPost #decor #design #EdwardSHarknessHouse #gildedAge #gildedAgeMansion #harknessHouse #HarknessMansion #interiorDesign #JamesGambleRogers #landmark #landmarkBuilding #landmarked #limestone #manhattan #newYorkCity #nyc #oakPanels #opaqueWindows #photography #postaday #upperEastSide #venetianStyle #vintage #weeklyPhotoChallenge #windowArt #windows -
The Lost Summers of Newport: A Novel
"3 stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies"
Sale: $14.99 to $2.99
by Beatriz Williams
Rating: 4.1/5 (4,891 Reviews)
#booksky #books #mystery #thriller #suspense #crime #newport #gildedage #secrets #murder
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The Lost Summers of Newport: A Novel
"3 stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies"
Sale: $14.99 to $2.99
by Beatriz Williams
Rating: 4.1/5 (4,891 Reviews)
#booksky #books #mystery #thriller #suspense #crime #newport #gildedage #secrets #murder
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I knew it was a mistake to let him see the Palace at Versailles ...
Also, it's the #DeclarationOfIndependence 's 250th Birthday, not the White House, you idiot.
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I knew it was a mistake to let him see the Palace at Versailles ...
Also, it's the #DeclarationOfIndependence 's 250th Birthday, not the White House, you idiot.
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What are "safety regulations"?
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2170917/what-are-safety-regulations
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What are "safety regulations"?
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2170917/what-are-safety-regulations
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An American Beauty "A True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country" Sale: $16.11 to $3.99 by Shana Abe Rating: 4.4/5 (17,499 Reviews) #historicalfiction #gildedage #books #booksky #novel #literature #romance #biographical #fiction #americanhistory
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An American Beauty "A True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country" Sale: $16.11 to $3.99 by Shana Abe Rating: 4.4/5 (17,499 Reviews) #historicalfiction #gildedage #books #booksky #novel #literature #romance #biographical #fiction #americanhistory
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“At the height of the #GildedAge, around 1910, the 4 largest #American #fortunes owned wealth equivalent to 4% of US GDP. Today, that same tiny fraction of the population, the top 0.00001% … could buy 14% of everything produced in a given year in #America.” open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/...
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“At the height of the #GildedAge, around 1910, the 4 largest #American #fortunes owned wealth equivalent to 4% of US GDP. Today, that same tiny fraction of the population, the top 0.00001% … could buy 14% of everything produced in a given year in #America.” open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/...
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“Many people have compared our current era to the #GildedAge. But that analogy is deeply unfair to the Gilded Age.” #inequality open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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“Many people have compared our current era to the #GildedAge. But that analogy is deeply unfair to the Gilded Age.” #inequality open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Meet the New Bosses, Worse Tha... -
An American Beauty "A Novel of the Gilded Age Inspired by the True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country" Sale: $16.11 to $3.99 by Shana Abe Rating: 4.4/5 (17,424 Reviews) #gildedage #books #booksky #novel #romance #literature #usa #society #wealth #drama
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An American Beauty "A Novel of the Gilded Age Inspired by the True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country" Sale: $16.11 to $3.99 by Shana Abe Rating: 4.4/5 (17,424 Reviews) #gildedage #books #booksky #novel #romance #literature #usa #society #wealth #drama
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116738821011889605
Do the rich think people will never rise up?
"Musk is now a trillionaire, but a lot of innocent people could be shafted by this IPO, perhaps without their even noticing. It could be a huge redistribution from most of us to Elon and his buddies.
"I don’t want to sound cynical, but this is the sort of thing that brings out the cynicism in me. It’s the story of rot at the core of American capitalism in this Second Gilded Age."
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116738821011889605
Do the rich think people will never rise up?
"Musk is now a trillionaire, but a lot of innocent people could be shafted by this IPO, perhaps without their even noticing. It could be a huge redistribution from most of us to Elon and his buddies.
"I don’t want to sound cynical, but this is the sort of thing that brings out the cynicism in me. It’s the story of rot at the core of American capitalism in this Second Gilded Age."
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how #capitalism destroys itself: #Inequality as structural feature: #wealth concentration has returned to #GildedAge levels in many countries. top 1% owns roughly 45% of global #wealth (= #assets such as #houses #land #water #energy #minerals)
Demand erosion: Extreme #inequality hollows out #consumer base that #capitalism depends on.
#seigniorage problem = private institution (or semi-private, as #Fed) has #power to create #money, captures enormous #wealth (#assets) simply through act of creation — before money has done anything productive
most powerful + least visible form of #wealth #extraction ever invented
harder truth: If #moneyprinting and #asset #ownership have become so divorced from productive #economic #activity that only destruction and conflict #war seem to #reset the system, that suggests the #system itself is #fundamentallybroken—not that war solves anything.
#warning even #revolution will be #manipulated to maximum extend https://mas.to/@wordmark/116714161816968079 -
#Inequality as a structural feature: Wealth concentration has returned to #GildedAge levels in many countries. The top 1% owns roughly 45% of global #wealth ( = #assets such as #water #energy #minerals )
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how #capitalism destroys itself: #Inequality as a structural feature: Wealth concentration has returned to #GildedAge levels in many countries. The top 1% owns roughly 45% of global #wealth ( = #assets such as #houses #land #water #energy #minerals )
Demand erosion: Extreme #inequality hollows out the #consumer base that #capitalism depends on.
The #seigniorage problem. When a private institution (or semi-private, as the #Fed is) has the power to create #money, it captures enormous #wealth (#assets) simply through the act of creation — before that money has even done anything productive
most powerful and least visible form of wealth extraction ever invented
The harder truth: If #moneyprinting and #asset #ownership have become so divorced from productive #economic #activity that only destruction and conflict #war seem to #reset the system, that suggests the #system itself is #fundamentallybroken—not that war solves anything.
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Wow very cool reconstruction photos of the Breakers terrace in Newport
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Wow very cool reconstruction photos of the Breakers terrace in Newport
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden "When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts" Sale: $19.99 to $1.99 by Cara Robertson Rating: 4.3/5 (1,242 Reviews) #history #truecrime #books #borden #trial #mystery #crime #legalhistory #gildedage #americas #booksky
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden "When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts" Sale: $19.99 to $1.99 by Cara Robertson Rating: 4.3/5 (1,242 Reviews) #history #truecrime #books #borden #trial #mystery #crime #legalhistory #gildedage #americas #booksky
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I saw in a post today someone calling the "AI" / LLM tulipmania "Gilded Age 2: Electric Boogaloo", and I think that's pretty fantastic.
#tulipmania #GildedAge #GildedAge2ElectricBoogaloo #ElectricBoogaloo
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I saw in a post today someone calling the "AI" / LLM tulipmania "Gilded Age 2: Electric Boogaloo", and I think that's pretty fantastic.
#tulipmania #GildedAge #GildedAge2ElectricBoogaloo #ElectricBoogaloo
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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
May 18, 2026
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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
May 18, 2026
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"People often forget that the economically and politically corrupt Gilded Age and the vicious, apartheid Jim Crow era occurred at the same time, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and following the collapse of Reconstruction. The two ill systems fed and needed each other to survive."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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"People often forget that the economically and politically corrupt Gilded Age and the vicious, apartheid Jim Crow era occurred at the same time, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and following the collapse of Reconstruction. The two ill systems fed and needed each other to survive."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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"civil rights, voting rights, affirmative action, the admission of nonwhite immigrants, workers rights, environmental care, the secularization of American society, women’s liberation through the right to access contraception and abortion, and LGBTQ rights."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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"civil rights, voting rights, affirmative action, the admission of nonwhite immigrants, workers rights, environmental care, the secularization of American society, women’s liberation through the right to access contraception and abortion, and LGBTQ rights."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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"John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:"
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
/1https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-roberts-corrupt
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"John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:"
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
/1https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-roberts-corrupt
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The Husband List: A Novel (Culhane Family Book 2) "She wanted adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly Rating: 4.3/5 (1,634 Reviews) #HistoricalRomance #GildedAge #Romance #JanetEvanovich #LoveStory #BookSky
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The Husband List: A Novel (Culhane Family Book 2) "She wanted adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly Rating: 4.3/5 (1,634 Reviews) #HistoricalRomance #GildedAge #Romance #JanetEvanovich #LoveStory #BookSky
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“For many interpreters of our conjuncture, it seems that we are regressing both in terms of #inequality and #international #tension to a configuration alarmingly reminiscent of the pre-1914 era. The inequality numbers in the US resemble those of the #gildedage.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
Chartbook 443 Hard-working heg... -
The Last Castle "The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home" Sale: $22 to $1.99 by Denise Kiernan Rating: 4.3/5 (7,529 Reviews) #History #GildedAge #Biltmore #Vanderbilt #Biography #Architecture #WomenInHistory #BookSky
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The Last Castle "The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home" Sale: $22 to $1.99 by Denise Kiernan Rating: 4.3/5 (7,529 Reviews) #History #GildedAge #Biltmore #Vanderbilt #Biography #Architecture #WomenInHistory #BookSky
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City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
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City Beautiful Blog profiles the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue — the Beaux-Arts skyscraper built as headquarters for Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. Traffic passes through its base via two monumental portals, its copper roof was once gilded in gold leaf, and a 6,000-watt lantern in the cupola was visible for miles. A building with layers worth knowing about.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #BeauxArts #GildedAge #NewYork
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The Waldorf Astoria began as a calculated social insult. William Waldorf Astor built a luxury hotel next to his aunt's mansion just to annoy her. City Beautiful Blog traces the full story, from that Gilded Age family feud to FDR's secret railway platform beneath the Park Avenue building. A well-told piece of New York history.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #NewYork #LocalHistory
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The Waldorf Astoria began as a calculated social insult. William Waldorf Astor built a luxury hotel next to his aunt's mansion just to annoy her. City Beautiful Blog traces the full story, from that Gilded Age family feud to FDR's secret railway platform beneath the Park Avenue building. A well-told piece of New York history.
#NYCHistory #GildedAge #Architecture #NewYork #LocalHistory
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#American oligarchs believing in and supporting the American Experiment is—indeed—considered…quaint.
The #GildedAge 2.0 is built different.
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#American oligarchs believing in and supporting the American Experiment is—indeed—considered…quaint.
The #GildedAge 2.0 is built different.
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CW: Mutual Aid Request
Wealth inequality has hit Gilded Age levels of absurdity. If you are providing genuine value and building tools for the people, but you can’t pay your bills, you aren’t "running a business." You are performing uncompensated charity for a society that’s being drained by a small group who is hoarding wealth.
I am committed to keeping my work independent and accessible. If you find value in what I do, you can support that mission here:
The FOSS Option (Liberapay): No-fee, open-source, and privacy-respecting. Perfect for those of you who value digital sovereignty. https://liberapay.com/terminaltilt/donate
The YouTube Option (Channel Membership): The easiest way to support the channel directly within the platform you're already using. https://www.youtube.com/@TerminalTilt/join
Whether it’s through a donation or just sharing the work, I appreciate you helping keep this project human-made.
#TerminalTilt #DigitalSovereignty #ValueForValue #SmallWeb #RightToRepair #WealthInequality #GildedAge #MutualAid #IndependentCreator #Liberapay #NoAI #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #QueerMutualAid #DisabilityMutualAid #DisabledCreator #QueerCreator
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CW: Mutual Aid Request
Wealth inequality has hit Gilded Age levels of absurdity. If you are providing genuine value and building tools for the people, but you can’t pay your bills, you aren’t "running a business." You are performing uncompensated charity for a society that’s being drained by a small group who is hoarding wealth.
I am committed to keeping my work independent and accessible. If you find value in what I do, you can support that mission here:
The FOSS Option (Liberapay): No-fee, open-source, and privacy-respecting. Perfect for those of you who value digital sovereignty. https://liberapay.com/terminaltilt/donate
The YouTube Option (Channel Membership): The easiest way to support the channel directly within the platform you're already using. https://www.youtube.com/@TerminalTilt/join
Whether it’s through a donation or just sharing the work, I appreciate you helping keep this project human-made.
#TerminalTilt #DigitalSovereignty #ValueForValue #SmallWeb #RightToRepair #WealthInequality #GildedAge #MutualAid #IndependentCreator #Liberapay #NoAI #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #QueerMutualAid #DisabilityMutualAid #DisabledCreator #QueerCreator
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IT HAPPENED BEFORE, IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1888589/it-happened-before-it-can-happen-again
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses