The gilded age never ended we just stopped calling it that
That’s not correct, there was a correction from the '30s to the '60s. It’s just we stopped caring in the 60s.
Yeah there was a correction but not one big enough to not call America gilded. The civil rights movement was a step forward but not everyone took that step willingly and some harbored resentment.
That’s what gilded means. It’s fake. Looks nice on the surface then you see the details.
They were talking about before the Civil Rights movement, FDR’s New Deal and stronger unions from the 30s-50s brought economic inequality way down. It started to go up again after that, and the current out of control situation really began in the 80s with Reagan’s awful tax policies that we’re still facing the consequences of
You have a very interesting definition. I’m not going to call it incorrect but I will call it based.
It’s not that people stopped caring. It’s more that people got fairly comfortable, and the greedy fucks at the top never stopped trying to hoard all of the money and power. So while most people had stopped fighting for better conditions, since conditions got pretty comfortable for a lot of people, the misers were actively working for decades to undermine all of society for their own selfish benefit. After decades of incremental enshitification, it has once again risen to a level where it can no longer be ignored. People have always cared about their own welfare, but they had their QOL slowly stolen while taking a much deserved breather.
