Paul Krugman hammering away at the Epstein Class: "...extreme vulgarity and the decline of philanthropy are really different aspects of the same phenomenon: the rise of an elite so disconnected from ordinary Americans that it feels no need to even appear to be honorable"
Fall of the great republic
Collapsing norms, cage matches, and a republic in danger
Paul Krugman: "We surpassed Gilded Age levels of income and wealth inequality decades ago. We’re now in an era of oligarchy in which the power of great wealth and the abuse of that power by a tiny elite eclipse anything we saw in the late 19th and early 20th century"
Chat, is that good?
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
