It's actually more absurd than that, the article says wealth inequality isn't so bad now because it was worse in the fucking Gilded Age The people in America who remember the Great Depression are a handful of near-centenarians and no one remembers the 1890s except vampireshttps://twitter.com/SaintSatellite/status/1237011485550882816 …
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Don't tell me white people who grew up in the time period with the lowest inequality among white people *in American history* know anything about the horrors of the Victorian era with aristocrats stepping over dead beggars in the gutter Your kids know more about that than you
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this is the thing that drives me insane the boomers were born into a time of world-historically unprecedented peace and prosperity and they have spent their entire adult lives tearing it all down because they didn't want to share it
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They shamelessly borrow stories about the Depression that their parents and grandparents went through that they, by definition, were born after so they can center themselves in it
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