If We’re in a New ‘Gilded Age’, How Will It End?

[@jay-t1030]

“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” - Mark Twain.

[@360.Tapestry]

it's like poetry. it rhymes - geo lucas

[@pantonpam8024]

Jay T, History does repeat itself. The wisest man that ever lived Solomon, stated that “There is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9-10. KJV 9 “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”

[@khakimzhanmiras]

History does not repeat itself. Human behaviour does.

[@highspeedflorida]

Why have I been seeing so many Twain quotes in comment sections very recently? Anyone else notice this??

[@czos9239]

"If we are the blueprint for 'intelligent life' in the universe, we have our answer to the fermi paradox." *Ecclesiastes **10:19* _A feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for everything._

[@RandomGuy33369]

We are in a age of willful ignorance

[@tuckerbugeater]

@Artur LeFrancois People don't know their enemy

[@dasalekhya]

I phrase it as age of the *PROUDLY IGNORANT* ... and USA is the worst example as their proudly ignorant have GUNS

[@cheesedtomeetyou8007]

Paul Joseph Watson fans are the best example of that

[@MartyFrolik]

@@tuckerbugeater They don’t even even want to know. They are fine being funnel fed.

[@beberivera7011]

@Artur LeFrancois what?!

[@darklyclad]

Nobody needs bugattis, penthouses, designer clothing or luxury to be happy, it's purely a superiority complex, materialism and narcissism. Luxury is an ostentatious version of anything that already exists.

[@MegamanTheSecond]

That's what everyone says until it's them lol people are hypocrites to their core

[@darklyclad]

@@MegamanTheSecond There's no use in contradicting an arrogant person, good day.

[@JGambrosia]

The problem is, is that the average person is striving for that way of life. Most people have a type of superiority complex, they want that luxury and materialism that already exists. The people that live in the suburbs are a good example. This culture is not one of self improvement. Self improvement is a joke. People educate themselves and pursue STEM because of money. They have real no interest or passion or anything. They go to the gym not because asked themselves: “wait if i how low bone density, doesn’t that increase the probability of osteoporosis? Doesn’t low muscle mass increase the chances of me getting diabetes?” People are naturally selfish and animalistic. A slaves to dopamine and their hormones.

[@soma7891]

There is a big club in this country- the owners- and you ain't it. - George Carlin

[@echad6259]

Retaking a test we should have learned long ago. That's what it means.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"...In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience..." ― Kwame Ture

[@carpo719]

true dat my friend.

[@agtv_media]

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. - Frederickk Douglass

[@TinaMcCall.]

We just keep peddling faster, hoping that our civilization's flying machine is in flight, not freefall. But the ground is rushing toward us, and the craft was never sound. - Paraphrase of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael

[@TheNitroPython]

Great book

[@ja_aq.ov_]

Put on your seat belt and pedal harder.

[@seannootherway]

@@ja_aq.ov_*in a child like whiny voice* " i dont want to wear a seat belt"

[@PineconeSunset]

Don't worry there's plenty of parachutes **checks for parachutes, but they're missing, only to find note saying "These are mine - J. Bezos"**

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

How will it end? If history is any indicater probably another Great Depression.

[@saintmuerte13]

Don't forget nazis

[@grmpEqweer]

@@saintmuerte13 Yep. If you're in the U.S., you might have noticed something? it's not like we were going to look like _German or Italian_ hypernationalism, fascism always takes on the character of the country, amplified.☹️

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Don't forget the Dustbowl...

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 Thanks to Climate Change it's flooding in those places now.

[@germwarfare]

A depression is unlikely, but we historically failed with our response to the Great Recession in punishing banks. Pay attention again to the housing market, student loan repayments, job rate, and car loan payments.

[@rockymtndrone]

It will end how the last Gilded Age ended; with a progressive movement organized by collective workers and unions.

[@julesbrags1661]

Assuming automation and AI development were significantly optimized for production and increased its efficiency within a decade, the power of worker unions will severely diminish. Those who provide jobs will choose to invest on assets that won't demand for rights and increased wages. Worker strikes will no longer be as effective as before, rendering unions as mere charity for the commons and an organized mob for governments and corporations to restrict.

[@leodivine]

I understand the end of the last Gilded Age wasn't perfect. But this video almost implies it was a bad thing!!

[@DiamondFlame45]

Thank you! Fortunately, we have labor strikers going over the country now that corporate media refuses to highlight!

[@atari947]

@@julesbrags1661 without those jobs where will the consumer base for these corporations be? Capitalism is eating itself.

[@Affluent-Ghetto-Blackman]

@@atari947 Let it die slow

[@reneedaniel2881]

"We have met the enemy and he Is us" -Pogo

[@360.Tapestry]

no, it's definitely the didtards no way! it's the regurgitants no, i am smart! you are not! no, i am free! you're a slave! big media: it's working kek

[@PrototypeC4]

alot of factory owners disliking this video

[@Mendaz]

Twenty yards of linen equal one coat

[@dexterwestin3747]

No, some people remember the last time there was a mass worker's movement and the destruction it wrought on the world.

[@Rangetechus]

You think they care?

[@TheFifthBanana01]

@@dexterwestin3747 “destruction” ah yes giving people a minimum wage and getting rid of child labor was definitely destructive.

[@icemike1]

@@dexterwestin3747 you're being facetious

[@eferg16]

History has spoken and decades of positive results have shown that strong worker unions are good for societies. Anyone who says otherwise is complicit in the selfishly weakening our society either by deliberately lying or through willful ignorance.

[@charliejohanssen7421]

damn straight

[@vinesgg3578]

@@bigtex1721 unions didnt destroy detroit, failure of US auto industry to change along with the market did. Workers should be responsible for failure of upper managment.

[@Freshbott2]

@@bigtex1721 Detroit was destroyed by a density crisis. A lot of US cities will go the same way, Detroit was just early to the losing game cause they were first to experiment with car based planning.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation." ― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

[@kaleboppenheimwhite3929]

“There are only alternatives” - Lenin

[@pleaseL1KEandSUBSCR1BE]

(and Ariel Durant)

[@uarestrong76]

eventually heartbeats stop.

[@fastestdino2]

I think that's exactly it. the history of humanity is us living in bondage, then in freedom, then in apathy until we go back to bondage.

[@lohollywood1f428]

Based pfp

[@augustgreig9420]

The world is too different. This will only end in violence.

[@Linkous12]

I doubt it. The people who are most effected negatively by all this are far too distracted.

[@logansolares3699]

@@Linkous12 that's why the rich keep paying the political figures. To keep us divided not united.

[@bigninja27]

You can't hide or lie about atrocities as easy now as you could before. For however small in influence witnesses might be for example in Rohingya or Tigray there are still witnesses with cameras and documentation like never before. If America fell to atrocious violence it would be documented to such a scale that a global pushback is the only realistic outcome. People don't like seeing genocides on their tv screens

[@dyrthos2955]

It always end in violence, because it was born in violence...a violence against the dignity of the worker and their rights

[@stevelamont23]

and a "great" depression, dont forget about that

[@thrisbt1]

"quotes in comments sections are an effective form of therapy ...they're posted & read so things can continue on just the same way - no change necessary" - Hustano B Servation

[@agentwashingtub9167]

A lot of business owners these days have forgotten that the agreement we came to at the end of the Gilded Age was they meet with the unions and come to an agreement or their factory gets fire bombed. They need to be reminded of that fact.

[@chupacabrataco4508]

And the strikers need to get reminded of the pinkertons

[@pedrocortez3797]

@@chupacabrataco4508 why are you defending billionaires that don't care about us?

[@russellmellott452]

@@chupacabrataco4508 Lol how pathetic do you have to be to defend the same group of people that exploit you and could not care less if you died

[@theblackestvoid]

@@chupacabrataco4508 lol why are you on the side of the bad guys? You sound like a sociopath.

[@theblackestvoid]

@@russellmellott452 cos he's a sociopath that wants to exploit people, of course his hubris is what creates people like Lenin.

[@feels6233]

Written in 1950- I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

[@FindTheFun]

"There is a lot being invested in the destruction of our world today." Nnimmo Bassey

[@agethauno6592]

You won't know it was gilded until the darkness is already here.

[@elizabethhalloway149]

It IS here

[@SacramentoNativ3]

It’s coming wait till everybody feels the working wage compared to that EDD wage lol

[@DR-nh6oo]

This gilded age represents the cutting back of worker's safety and rights and replacing jobs with robots.

[@janetleclaire6763]

I watched a movie yesterday about how the mafia had the control over politics and private businesses. It made me realize that our Country is regressing. If firm action isn’t taken we will lose everything- mainly our rights

[@jingbot1071]

What is your proposed plan? Just curious.

[@stevechance150]

Hi Janet, I'm having trouble posting my comment, so I'm going to post it several times.

[@Affluent-Ghetto-Blackman]

@HunterBidensCrackPipe So why didn’t the country improve at all under 4 years of Trump and Far rightism?

[@stevechance150]

Hi Janet, you should watch the movie "Where to Invade Next". It's a documentary by Michael Moore, so it has a bit of his "over the top" humor at the beginning of the film, but you will enjoy the film. He shows us what people in other countries have, which Americans couldn't dream of having.

[@stevechance150]

Hi Janet, you should watch the movie "Where to Invade Next".

[@ffejkk37]

Company owners would be nothing, without its workers.

[@3rdvoidmen594]

Workers would be nothing without company owners.

[@wrestler375]

@@3rdvoidmen594 You legitimately think that if a company was formed by a wealthy owner and investors that the workers couldn’t get it up and running?? The owner and investor would have to come out to the floor and show them how the machines, etc. worked??

[@wrestler375]

@@3rdvoidmen594 You don’t have to answer that cause the answer is yes. The standard workers know how to make the product. They may not have the capital to start a factory but that doesn’t mean they deserve the slightest fraction of the profits the owners make.

[@Tylervrooman]

Where's the money going to come from? (Nobody's asking to be rich, we just want to live, *living wages are possible, we're told they're not.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness." Niels Bohr "I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals." Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

[@victorc824]

😂😂😂

[@victorc824]

Careful now.. your gonna trigger a lot of republican business owners who cringe at the idea of the working class working together and their labor costs going up

[@Harry-hyl]

"A quote" -genius

[@possessedtaco1152]

Lmaooo

[@patrickn8355]

Right as if Googling random quotes and posting them on KZbin makes you smart lmfao these people bruh

[@carpo719]

that was mine, why did I not get the proper attributes? You will be hearing from my Lawyer, Dave Frivolous.

[@NirvanaFan5000]

what this video seems to ignore is that inequality DID go down during the progressive era... it was later, in the 70s, with thatcher and reagan undoing a lot of policies, that inequality started to quickly ramp up again.

[@CultReddy]

The Dave Chappelle outrage has lasted longer than the Afghanistan withdrawal outrage. And that sums up where we are as a species right now

[@lanefair2950]

Where are you? Because there is still outrage over Afghanistan in the US.

[@grmpEqweer]

Sh1t, man, I'm still fairly outraged over Iraq. I'm outraged that we invaded Afghanistan _in the first place._ I'm outraged over the fact that we're bombing Somalia with drones-studies done by outside agencies state that the vast majority killed by drones are innocent people. ...I'm outraged that we're an empire at all, one funded mostly by the middle class, while the rich dodge their taxes and get ever richer.

[@josephmayfield945]

@@grmpEqweer where is the study - link please.

[@JamesSmith-ij8nj]

Correction; And that sums up where we are with news cycles defined by corporate media outlets right now. Think, if Trump had done a Biden in Afgan.. 24/7 condemnation.

[@EvanAndHell]

From private dinners on yachts to private flights in space. Still won’t help the homeless though.

[@chronofactor2037]

They'll accidentally drop a few crumbs from their overly expensive sandwich and consider not having the man who sweeps them up executed, charity.

[@jairopavon11]

The homeless have a lot of help is a metal health issue we have a lot of programs that get people out of homelessness but not mental health programs

[@sweetnaomi56]

There will always be rich and poor people but I mean if a few people have enough money to end poverty and world hunger a few times over then that amount of wealth is ridiculous

[@lancehernancornel........2501]

lets just wish guys that there was no another rejected painter.

[@genociderjill]

Keep your Eyes Peeled

[@liwoszarchaeologist]

Godwin was a prophet

[@waxywabbit1247]

@@genociderjill for the banana fish.

[@julianmedina7213]

There probably will be a new, genuinely progressive era as the older generations start to die out and the younger generations (i.e. millenial and gen Z) replace them

[@anthonymarquez6493]

I honestly don't see a way that this country will become any better unless a new voting rights bill is passed because of the control that is exerted by politicians through gerrymandering even then the 2 parties that dominate our politics are both about enriching themselves while pretending to be at each other's throat but they often have them same political donors. The only 2 politicians I have seen set aren't like that are Bernie and AOC but I highly doubt there will be much more like them to make a significant impact. I am 25 yrs old and I honestly can't imagine this country changing for the better in my lifetime.

[@JamesSmith-ij8nj]

Bernie worked really hard for his three mansions. Bartender tips will always allow one to wear $40,000 dresses. Power corrupts even those with the best intentions.

[@xdguy2569]

"Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down." -Rick Astley

[@yusufal-kafir1539]

'Never ever run a race on dessert food.' - track coaches

[@TurbulenTornado]

"Dont believe everything you read on the internet." -Abraham Lincoln

[@brucelee4996]

"Man who stands on toilet, is high on pot." - Confucius

[@carpo719]

Are you SuRE that is his?

[@aelaan12]

Thanks for making and putting this video on the net, it certainly takes me back to my youth and gives me a lot to think about this Sunday.

[@carrot4759]

Kinda seems like we have nothing to lose but our chains at this rate

[@360.Tapestry]

and your iphone, and your premium vehicle modifications, and your apartment on the nice side of town

[@kagakai7729]

@@360.Tapestry and this is the part where you provide your evidence that the average american worker has access to any of those things.

[@Soleilune1995]

@@360.Tapestry I mean... okay. Who cares? I'd like the system not to be rigged instead.

[@HumbleAstronaut]

BAN lobbying! Set term limits for members of congress ! DEMAND CHANGE!! We need that Eminem Mosh energy

[@Nollic15]

YES! something both sides can agree on!

[@HumbleAstronaut]

@@Nollic15 people need to get these "sides" out of their heads anyway! Were all Americans! This "left vs right" is BS and just a distraction meant to divide us ! Both sides are guilty for lobbying and being corrupt! We neet to start holding them accountable and I mean actually holding them accountable!

[@360.Tapestry]

andrew yang proposed democracy vouchers that go directly to offset corporate donations... but people don't vote on policy. and, of course, the dnc blackballed him because they don't really want progress

[@HumbleAstronaut]

@@360.Tapestry of course. Also I was YangGang but unfortunately some deeper digging and he has some questionable policies as well. Unfortunately I have 0 faith in ANY politician anymore. Even if they're not bought off right away it won't be long before they can't say no. Lobbying must be banned and term limits must be set before real change is too come. But you're right the DNC is just as corrupt and thats why Gabbard and Yang were not pushed further

[@JamesSmith-ij8nj]

@@360.Tapestry Sure, take my tax dollars, distribute it to the populous that will then lobby against me.. Donate your own earnings if you want, don't take mine to do it.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Workers matter ✊🏼

[@rdizzleoriginal]

So do employers

[@honeyOTU_]

@@rdizzleoriginal lmfao

[@crystalwillow3897]

“Gilded age”? More like a dumpster fire 🔥

[@miguelupload555]

It's a tongue-in-cheek phrase. Ironic even

[@jjoohhhnn]

gilds are the precursors to unions.

[@the_cheerwine1762]

The strongest steel is forged in the hottest dumpster fire

[@CountCalcium]

@@jjoohhhnn I think you mean guild

[@TinaMcCall.]

The Man has crushed us with impunity this century, bc we have not made him face consequences.

[@dexterwestin3747]

Who is the man? The man is different depending on which group of individuals we ask.

[@rhwf]

@@dexterwestin3747 central banks.

[@grmpEqweer]

@@dexterwestin3747 Anyone rich enough to buy a federal politician. That's who's in charge.

[@MarcSherwood]

@@grmpEqweer What always gets me is just how little money it takes to buy them.

[@kmac8055]

The problem is right wing propaganda calling poor people lazy and entitled instead of calling billionaires greedy and immoral. We vilify the poor and idolize the rich. Rich people taking advantage of our flawed tax code is savvy. Poor people taking advantage of social safety nets are lazy. We are all poor in comparison to the Uber rich. Remember which side you’re on.

[@kmac8055]

@DOOMGUY in that case I’m curious to hear your definition of right wing

[@livewellwitheds6885]

don't forget that favored groups [rich people] get stuff from the gov while marginalized groups are fucked over by laws

[@hhydar883]

I said that before and will say it again, no one human should have billions of dollars in their hand doesn't matter how much they worked for it. A limit to money will help create a society where wealth is owned not by few but majority of the public. Humans have no limit to greed thats why too much freedom is not a right thing.

[@sandtrap1018]

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or you're going to be locked up." ~Hunter Thompson

[@arttucker6678]

"Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?" - Cardinal Richelieu

[@user1029xspl8dy]

it sure doesn't feel like a "gilded age" for most Americans.

[@zafelrede4884]

A gilded age is not to be confused with a golden age.

[@gambit85]

That's EXACTLY what Gilded means. A thin veil of Gold Leaf that covers a simple metal underneath.

[@calebwilliams586]

Yes, but that would make it a false Golden age wouldn't it?

[@augustgreig9420]

More like gilded cage.

[@wer7doch8wer]

Yes, in the first guilded age, the wealthy and powerful were going great but at the expense of most of the people.

[@catflon2388]

The single unifying human trait is that we don't learn.🤦

[@rbeeler81]

A theory I have toyed with is that when an alternative system existed in Soviet communism that, ostensibly, espoused the rights and welfare of the average working person, the elites in the West adopted a far more egalitarian distribution of capital. This is not to argue the merits of capitalism vs communism, rather, an alternative existed, and to make that alternative less appealing, our government and political leaders finally adopted such things as social security, unemployment, the GI Bill, and other programs designed to protect and possibly uplift the working class. I do not believe it is a coincidence that in the waning days of the Soviet Union, all of a sudden those of us in the US were sold a fraudulent bill of goods in trickle-down economics, anti-unionism, offshoring and other Chamber of Commerce-inspired theories that in practice, only serve to enrich those at the top while pulling up the ladder to those at the bottom.

[@yusufal-kafir1539]

'If unicorns ravage your vegetable garden overnight, what can you expect to find in the morning?'

[@hellofriend545]

Sparkly shits

[@protitikhan3861]

The dust bowl? Yeah, the dust bowl is definitely next.

[@TheLazyass111]

with how thing are going climate wise, another dust bowl scenario doesn't seem too farfetched

[@jnanacaksusa3932]

Dust bowl would be an understatement... History has never seen what is about to happen.

[@gajayjay]

Half the world about to become a permanent dust bowl for the next 100 years

[@shrayesraman5192]

@@gajayjay And the other half will be under water.

[@squirrelturdz6868]

Y’all don’t understand? We are still slaves, they just changed the word from “enslaved” to “employees”.

[@MrDrProfessorSir962]

Inequality never stopped…we need to fix the first instance.

[@angelmujahid2233]

People were so offended by Clinton saying they were deplorables but don’t hesitate in proving her words right.

[@agentmueller]

Okay Taliban

[@angelmujahid2233]

@@agentmueller Found one

[@kg66428]

"Violence isn't the answer, it's the solution."

[@everythingunderthesun7803]

The gilded age of the 19 teens ended with a great war. WWI to be exact...

[@airwriq]

Anf we're headed to WWIII

[@numanh8391]

Everything will come to its place once sanitation workers stop working

[@hellofriend545]

*sigh* now after COVID we got all these plague simps 🙄 (I’m joking don’t murder me pls)

[@Gilgaemesh]

We need more solidarity in the workplace. We need more Unions.

[@justforfun-jp2vc]

IWW

[@justforfun-jp2vc]

Who fought for those labor rights? 🧐 Anti-racist anarchist unions like IWW did. Many of those organizers and women ended up incarcerated and their legacies were forgotten.

[@cdmcmxcvi1249]

This is legitimate historical revisionism. If you want to go around and parade the fantasy that “anti-racist anarchists” won rights for labor unions that’s fine. But I’m here to tell you thats actually laughable. Today in America you’d be hard pressed to find maybe 1 in 10 skilled laborers describe themselves as such. Back in the height of the labor movement it was even less. You’re probably some white collar crack pot that never swung a hammer in life.

[@justforfun-jp2vc]

@@cdmcmxcvi1249 You are wrong about all of this and sound angry and resentful. Please take your uneducated opinion somewhere else. Honestly you never know who is behind an account.

[@garyinmarz8938]

The biggest issue is that the poor and helpless will use anger on the the middle class because they can't get near the people that are keeping them in poverty.

[@ohlordy9680]

Can we all appreciate the fact that VICE News never disappointed us with it's content 🤚

[@maazkalim]

with its* There! FTFY 😑 Whoa.. ...Boy! New to KZbin comments?

[@forrestl5597]

not recently at least

[@Quesadillius]

How is this disappointing?

[@the_cheerwine1762]

Every Vice video these days is a gamble imo. some hit some miss

[@martinli2544]

2:52-3:05 is a key highlight there. Let's just look at an example in the modern day work field. Say you are a boss and you want to slow down work output, here automatically is the response: Well you cut down workers; obviously less workers, less work output. I on the other hand will note that if I want to slow down work, I put the worker with the less expertise within my available staff/hands in the overall unit into the job to be slowed; in this way you get continuing education still while on the job, the worker gets a new experience, gets reminded of what it is like to be a freshie, gets to meet sectors in the company that it perhaps otherwise would never engage with, and then from the work effort thrown in gets to see ways else of putting the self to an expression that may one day be used to get across a point more readily to another when called into action; for here it has been trained in every way. And the boss that is preparing even further ahead would consider the flow of work experience he can to his staff provide in a way such that the staff is developed insight into this process, this work philosophy that readies them without their knowing for the winding road ahead. And this is the kind of things that will usher populace into a new 'gilded age' The point here is the reasons why the former is accepted as the resolution over the latter is precisely because the brain connection is not there, reformers bank on the only way they know how and that was the way by which they got to their very own positions, which for the most of them 95%+ is basically 'social darwinism' for short, that every man for itself mottle. But more importantly, because it (the thinking) was also of that kind of birth environment + the time being of just nature and what proliferates in that age, the heads (not brains) in a position of power does not have the level of intellect (a separate issue from IQ/EQ) to fit multiple schools of study together (that is say have still their social darwinism where competition will continuously create those deemed more 'fit' but also hold this seemingly paradoxical state of possibility where the 'weak' survives and is nourished into strength and strength for the greater good. -Dog

[@wiremonkeyelectric]

Workers in any field... Stand together or fall alone!

[@emjaycpe]

So basically. Humans won't take any problem seriously until the bodies start dropping? Sadness.

[@brandonrhonepeterson1024]

Unfortunately bodies have been dropping. I think the question then becomes when will it hurt the upper class and people who causing these problems to then be like " huh maybe we should do something" or else getting tired of the bullshit.

[@vastpeople9623]

"If it's turning, it has a bottom" - Vast People

[@teca986]

Poor people gonna rise up and get their share. Poor people gonna rise up and take what’s theirs.

[@spookyboi8446]

No we are not, we are in the age of mental and emotional instability.

[@colebloom6707]

That's every age. We've always been mentally and emotionally unstable. Its just how humans are, and will always be.

[@theblackestvoid]

and what do you think has caused this buddy?

[@KostyaT]

Not sure why they kept showing Amy Klobuchar when listing progressive politicians, but never mentioned Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. That made zero sense.

[@jforester7]

Translation: There's a war coming.

[@theblackestvoid]

it's always been class war.

[@jay-t1030]

How will it end you ask? World economic Depression which would lead to a new World War

[@jingbot1071]

With more oligarch blood than the last one, hopefully. This time, don't let any of them escape.

[@scrooglemcdoogle]

Your clown profile picture is appropriate.

[@talaverajr391]

The system itself is the problem too.

[@jingbot1071]

@HunterBidensCrackPipe lol ok, keep subbing for billionaires.

[@jingbot1071]

@@scrooglemcdoogle Why I picked it. Otherwise, I would have gone with a serious username like scrooglemcdoogle...

[@atari947]

@@scrooglemcdoogle Ah you have destroyed his ideas

[@fenton3137]

I fear the same mistakes will be made as in the 'progressive era'. The reliance on social democracy, as the vehicle for anti-capitalism, ultimately dooms any oppositional movement, as it focus on trying to reform Capitalism, not overcome it; Leading to similar political movements that inevitably happened after the 'progressive era'. This doesn't even touch upon the flaws of social democratic policy, as it ultimately does not change the economic relations of society for most people; When the UK Labour government nationalised steel, most workers didn't notice a difference (because there ultimately wasn't one)

[@dasalekhya]

*_warehousing the homeless_* ... WOW! that is *simultaneously beautiful and repulsive* ... brilliant conceptualization by the author

[@reyne8424]

3:06 As a women I am tired of people pretending like we aren't generally more likely to be weaker than 'other workers'. We are, physically. And that's ok. Doesn't make us any less, just better suited for other jobs.

[@valiant545]

We all have a role to play, no sense running from it. Equal in heart, we all do our part.

[@___________2204]

Humanity has never had it better before, with each of us getting DoorDash and 24/7 entertainment in our hands, and yet people still complaining like it's the end of the world. We need unions and negotiating power as workers, that's all. We need stability, political, cultural and mental. Maybe even religious stability As someone who came from a country that America invaded and ruined, please please please protect what you have in America. Democracy is very fragile. And America has been a great place to be so far. Please protect it. Understand each other. Don't be divisive and defensive. We only have one planet and America has been one of the most democratic places in the world. Not to say everything is perfect. Make it better, but don't ruin what others have built before you

[@TabooRevolution13]

As 1st president of the continent I can tell you that our era is ripe for change and corruption is obviously rampant regarding the vaccines.

[@raresmircea]

1:26 Oh my god, who is that glamorous ubermensch? He’s obviously possessing the intellect of a million humans and is able to do the work of a million more, i hope he’s making sufficient money to not be able to spend in many many lifetimes 🤘

[@panzertracks]

hopefully the system gets flipped on its head. massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to poor and a creation of a massive middle class.

[@rdizzleoriginal]

Nothing like claiming people have wealth through illegitimate means and hoping to gain their wealth through illegitimate means

[@MuckoJumbie]

What you are really saying is that, after about another 80 year period in America, it is time again to start a new Monopoly/Capitalism game(redistribute the wealth) all over again for about the 3rd time ! That is how Capitalism has survived as an economic system in America. A few win the game, albeit by cheating, and we must start fresh with a new game!

[@MrCarpelan]

I hate the word "division". It's not our fault one side actively wants to make life worse for people while the other does not. It's not grey, it's completely black and white in this regard.

[@li5up6]

You are part of the problem

[@saintmuerte13]

Which side tried to over throw the government to make an out voted president dictator for life again?

[@jojoadeyemi8239]

Democrats/Republicans are basically competing to see who can bring about corporate fascism the fastest. 3rd party or not serious.

[@Affluent-Ghetto-Blackman]

@@jojoadeyemi8239 People don’t realize they’re basically the same party. Both right wing both pro extreme capitalist and fucking the little guy over and both keeping the population dumbed down.

[@lordblazer]

Been saying this for 15 years.. I'm not sure why media is so damn behind. all institutions seem to not be able to come to grip with a reality they're facing.

[@traumerle369]

Niemand ist besser als der Staub unter seinen Füßen! Dies gilt Männlein und Weiblein gleichermaßen. Und da man dies nicht beherzigt, kommt es immer wieder zu den gleichen Ereignissen.

[@carpo719]

I wish we could indeed get over our greed, judgment and inequality. But why can we never acknowledge the things we HAVE done, and the benefits we have worked to obtain? Truth is, between the PEOPLE, things have gotten better. Between us and the CORPORATIONS and GOVERNMENT things are getting worse. But we blame each other for everything. We can do anything together.

[@matthewtopping2061]

Beautiful song at the end there

[@Who-vt9oh]

I'm having a hard time understanding this guy's point. Is he saying progress isn't possible without violence? If so, is he also suggesting that progress isn't worth it given the violence that's required to bring it about? But if that's the case, what's the alternative? Inequality is going to lead to instability and yes, violence regardless, eventually, if it's allowed to continue unabated.

[@spacemanapeinc7202]

I wonder when this Glided age will have its Teddy Roosevelt.

[@peytondailey6108]

I feel like the next Teddy Roosevelt would be Gavin newsom or other progressive politicians but definitely not aoc

[@philmcdonald6088]

ALL POWER TO THE PEOLE. join a union. vote socialist workers.

[@jameslowe971]

Just how it ended the last time. BLODD

[@rdizzleoriginal]

Is that some sort of German cake? Sounds like a good time.

[@gretaweiss6802]

Mm blodd! 🍰

[@DrakeBarrow]

One thing I'd like to know is how many people 'back then' were OK with striking workers and organizers being gunned down or otherwise brutalized by hired thugs VS how many are OK with it now. Not something that people talk about.

[@richardnunez3474]

Wow, this exactly what is happening today. We are indeed in the second gilded age. Vice does like no one💙

[@boneappletee6416]

Love that shot at 1:23 with the guy in the wheelchair holding onto the bicycle.

[@Zatvornik]

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist

[@jingbot1071]

Kaiser Sose?

[@mr.johndoe2659]

@Carpe Diem come on now, you can't expect personal responsibility from the common folks, its way easier to blame the boogie man

[@MrJrock84]

If it is not a progressive era that can end our so-called Gilded Age, then, it will have to be a revolutionary era instead.

[@aussiebiketourer8159]

You spelled Gilead wrong

[@kakumee]

Same way it always has, rich get richer the rest of us get poorer....

[@Skateandcreate9]

Too often freedom is used as a guise to keep the fact that these peoples wealth is truly obscene under the radar

[@maggiemae7539]

During the dust bowl days people flocked to Cali to pick crops for little money. They did not know they were scabs. There was a strike going on. They did not know. This time there will be no crops to pick. Those crops are gone for good.

[@fortytwo244]

Ends when we eat the rich

[@yourfellowpotatoe8431]

When will we start fighting for Worker's rights?

[@july9566]

Bernie wanted that but we know what happened to that ...

[@foreveryactionthereisacons1683]

Jello Biafra was right about everything.

[@mr.factoid105]

Wasn't the violent resistance of the progressive era quashed and the reforms sought were abandoned for fifteen or so years before being revived in a less violent manner in the new deal? Like I recall hearing that reform suffered a lot in the wake of Blair Mountain.

[@theblackestvoid]

yes the new deal solely existed to stave off a soviet style mentality appearing in workers.

[@rapauli]

Ha, ha,.."when historians look back" - the phrase assumes a persistence of civilization.

[@Coloradiohead]

what is scary to me is the progressive era after the gilded age was followed by ww1 so I hope history doesn't repeat 100%