1. Paralelismos con la Gilded Age y Desigualdad Superior al Siglo XIX.
La narrativa predominante sugiere que los niveles actuales de desigualdad económica han superado los registros históricos de finales del siglo XIX, situando a la sociedad en una posición de vulnerabilidad extrema.
- Wealth inequality at its current level surpasses that of the gilded age. For those who dont know what that was, its that time period in movies when 6 families could barely afford to share a 3 room shack, and 12 year olds worked in the factories.
- Inequality is worse now than it has been since the gilded age. So much so that it is leading to serious societal breakdown.
- The us actually seems to be in something like the gilded age, the period . After reconstruction and before the progressive era, when robber barons and industrialists built great fortunes but inequality grew.
2. Crítica a la Retórica Política y la "Nueva Era Dorada".
Los ciudadanos interpretan las promesas de una nueva "era de oro" como un eufemismo para el regreso de los monopolios, la desregulación y la erosión de los derechos laborales en favor de una élite económica.
- Trump loves the gilded age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many the gilded age explained an era of wealth and inequality.
- He means gilded age massive wealthy inequality, immense corporate power, abuse of workers, deregulation leading to great public harm.
- Trump-musk golden age gilded age late 19th, early 20th century marked by extreme wealth inequality. Prosperity concentrated among the wealthy elite at the expense of the working class and rampant corruption.
3. El Surgimiento de los Nuevos "Robber Barons" Tecnológicos.
Se identifica a los magnates de la tecnología moderna como los sucesores de los industriales del siglo XIX, acumulando un poder que amenaza la estabilidad democrática y la competencia de mercado.
- America is in a second gilded age of near-record inequality and corruption, featuring robber barons like musk, bezos, zuckerberg, and the biggest robber of them all trump.
- Tech and corporate titans want a new gilded age with our dependence on them. This is at the crux of whats happening here.
- The ultra-rich have captured more of americas wealth than even the nineteenth-century tycoons of the gilded age. Scholars who study inequality as far back as the neolithic period struggle to find precedents.
4. Riesgos de Colapso Económico y la Sombra de 1929.
Existe una preocupación latente de que la combinación de desigualdad extrema, aranceles y burbujas especulativas esté replicando las condiciones que precedieron a la Gran Depresión.
- The great depression was preceded by a period of industrial growth and social development... Much of the profit generated by the boom was invested in speculation, such as on the stock market, contributing to growing wealth inequality. Sound familiar??
- If you wanted to create a gilded age of widening income inequality followed by a crash bigger than the great depression, this would be a good recipe.
- Income concentration at the top and tariffs were two of the major factors in the great depression of the 1930s. The first was one of the causes and the second deepened it.
5. La Necesidad de una Nueva Era Progresista y Reformas.
Como respuesta a la crisis de desigualdad, los discursos apuntan hacia la organización laboral y la intervención gubernamental como las únicas vías para restaurar la clase media y la cohesión social.
- The gilded age was ended by unions, income tax and the roosevelts. History shows unchecked capitalism leads to people fighting back.
- We need to respond with a new progressive era that lifts from poverty prioritizes the middle class.
- The last time wealth inequality was at this point in us history the gilded age there were workers revolts, but rather than have a soviet style revolution, our nation found progressivism and muckrakers. Its that time again.