Post AkuqoLAKf2sLLHoGRM by todwest@beige.party
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 (DIR) Post #AkuqoKB0L3oqH57Hqi by palin@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AkuqoLAKf2sLLHoGRM by todwest@beige.party
       2024-08-12T23:05:28Z
       
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       @palin The Gilded Age plutocrats were all classically educated, particularly in what we now refer to as 'the humanities.' The built libraries, universities, hospitals, company towns with guaranteed lifetime employment and excellent benefits (see: welfare capitalism), concert halls, museums; they established endowments and foundations and charities. No so much our subliterate techbros, who'd just as soon spend their time pulling the wings off flies.