silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption. | Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1233arrow-down13
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minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·1 day agoI mean, it’s in the name. It wasn’t a golden age, it was just made to look that way.
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 day agoExactly. The thin covering of gold was meant to represent the small minority holding all of the wealth.
minus-squaretiramichu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 day agoYep, that’s specifically the meaning :) Golden = Made of gold Gilded = Covered in a thin layer of gold The gold and the thin layer was the 1%-ers, with rampant corruption and harsh conditions for everyone else.
I mean, it’s in the name. It wasn’t a golden age, it was just made to look that way.
Exactly. The thin covering of gold was meant to represent the small minority holding all of the wealth.
Just libertarian cope
Like a veneer or something
Yep, that’s specifically the meaning :)
Golden = Made of gold
Gilded = Covered in a thin layer of gold
The gold and the thin layer was the 1%-ers, with rampant corruption and harsh conditions for everyone else.