The Gilded age happened. Debt became rampant and monopolies empowered by lax/captured regulation and political machines fed incompetence to the highest offices of govt through the spoils system. Â
Essentially what the US is experiencing right now, except Herbert Hoover never shat himself during a press conference.
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Fun fact: if you exclude AI and AI adjacent industries, the US economy only grew 0.1% in 2025.
(It probably wasn’t the entire US economy over the entire year. I’m probably misremembering it, the “0.1% growth if you exclude AI” just stuck with me, even if I can’t exactly remember what it was about).
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The Gilded age happened. Debt became rampant and monopolies empowered by lax/captured regulation and political machines fed incompetence to the highest offices of govt through the spoils system. Â
Essentially what the US is experiencing right now, except Herbert Hoover never shat himself during a press conference.
Fun fact: if you exclude AI and AI adjacent industries, the US economy only grew 0.1% in 2025.
(It probably wasn’t the entire US economy over the entire year. I’m probably misremembering it, the “0.1% growth if you exclude AI” just stuck with me, even if I can’t exactly remember what it was about).