#thegildedagepbs — Public Fediverse posts

"There are those who believe that if you will only #legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The #Democratic idea, however, had been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them." – #WilliamJenningsBryan

Will we ever fundamentally change?

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Survival of the fittest is not a term created by #CharlesDarwin to explain successful biological adaptations, it was invented by #HerbertSpencer to add a gilded patina of #science to his notion of #SocialDarwinism, created solely to justify social and #EconomicInequality and oppression by the wealthy of the #worker.

Nothing anywhere, for anyone, has fundamentally changed.

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#link: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-gilded-age-nun3cr/

#link: https://youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?si=n5F61B-V3FINC3h1

"It's not your own fault. It is the fault of the way we have organized our #economy, the way we've allowed certain things to develop unchecked and uncontrolled. There's no reason for anybody to be poor in #America." – #ProgressAndPoverty, 1879, by #HenryGeorge

We've long known yet nothing fundamentally has changed.

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#link: https://youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?si=3SwIhgMBKhp0ZzuM