$50 trillion shifted from bottom 90% to top 1%
Since 1975, roughly $50 trillion has moved from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
Snapshot · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
America at 250 — with Heather Cox Richardson
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Jun 18, 2026
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The Gilded Age Comparison and What's Distinctly Different Now
At 32:40 · chapter starts 31:17
In response to Galloway's question about historical analogues to Trump's foreign policy and today's domestic situation, Richardson reaches for the Gilded Age — the late 19th century era of robber barons, purchased senators, and the systematic exclusion of Black voters from the political process. The analogy has real force: extreme wealth concentration, captured legislatures, the delegitimisation of opposition. But Richardson presses on a critical distinction that makes the current moment more alarming than the Gilded Age [1] — Heather Cox Richardson "The Gilded Age had robber barons who bought senators — but even Carnegie and Rockefeller believed in America's democratic framework. Today'…" 28:00 . Carnegie and Rockefeller — however ruthlessly they pursued their own interests — still believed in the United States, its constitutional framework, and the separation of powers. Today's group in power, she argues, has no such faith. They are actively trying to destroy both domestic democratic institutions and the post-World War II rules-based international order, with an eye to carving up the globe in ways that echo late 19th-century colonial competition. That ideological rupture, she suggests, is what makes this moment qualitatively different.
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