• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    TIL that back in the good ol’ days of The Gilded Age there was a luxury tax and rich people went to jail!
    The Carnegies and Rockefellers, the Morgans and Vanderbilts must have been quaking in their spatterdashes!

    EDIT: It is, at very best, utterly useless to view the past with rose-tinted glasses.