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Originally posted by Spanky
What is wrong with defending the Gilded age? That was when the US experienced incredible growth and sucked in immigrants from all over the world. Yes there were problems with wealth disparity but can you cite a system that existed in another country during that period that provided as well for the working classes.
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More precisely, it sounds like a defense of the Gilded Age without any acknowledgement of its problems (which, as it turns out, you've done above).
Your original comment seemed to suggest that the gap doesn't matter, so long as the bottom quartile improves in an absolute sense. I disagree, for the reasons that Burger and SAM mentioned above.
