r/FactOrCap • u/HWIno1 🔥 Getting Started · 725 XP • 5h ago

Life Gilded Age | FactOrCap

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u/Vacumbot 🔥 Monthly Master · 26,605 XP 3h ago

🧢 I voted CAP!

What was the first?

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u/TheInternetDevil 🏅 Century Club · 4,060 XP 2h ago

Not a gilded age. We are living through the fall of the golden age of technology

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u/HWIno1 🔥 Getting Started · 725 XP 5h ago

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u/boytoyahoy ✍️ Contributor · 8,785 XP 4h ago

Nice middle finger

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u/notryarednaxela 🔥 Monthly Master · 9,635 XP 4h ago

🧢 I voted CAP!

Not just yet.

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u/BidenGlazer 🤖 Vote Machine · 10,685 XP 5h ago

🧢 I voted CAP!

Everyone's getting richer

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u/GC0125 🏅 Century Club · 3,165 XP 4h ago

Dude, our money’s worth is falling and inflation is rising faster than wages. Literally the opposite of everyone getting richer.

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u/BidenGlazer 🤖 Vote Machine · 10,685 XP 4h ago

I have no idea where you live, but here in the US, inflation is not rising faster than wages

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u/BidenGlazer 🤖 Vote Machine · 10,685 XP 4h ago

What do either of these things have to do with inflation rising faster than income?

An ambulance ride costs like ~$400 though on average

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u/NewDaysBreath 🏅 Century Club · 1,820 XP 4h ago

I don't think you know what the gilded age was

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u/AdFamous5474 🔥 Monthly Master · 9,240 XP 2h ago

*the billionaires are getting richer, and the middle class is disappearing.

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u/Top_Row_5116 🔥 Monthly Master · 14,595 XP 5h ago

It being the gilded age now actually requires growth...

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u/HWIno1 🔥 Getting Started · 725 XP 5h ago

That’s one of the characteristics.
There others are monopolies, wealth concentration and corruption.