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Yes, Over The Centuries Economic Progress Has Reduced Some Gross Disparities - Modern Americans Are Relatively Unlikely To Simply Starve To Death (though It Can Happen), So In That Sense The Gap Between Rich And Poor Has Narrowed. But The Question Isn't Whether Society Is, In Some Sense, More Equal Than It Was In 1900. It's Whether It Is Radically More Unequal Than It Was In 1970. And Of Course It Is.

The Federal Government Is Basically An Insurance Company With An Army.

Republican Candidates Had To Appeal To Their Base, Which Is By And Large Elderly White People Arguing With Empty Chairs.

If The Price Of Everything Is Going Down, That's Going To Include Wages As Well. People Will Have An Incentive To Sit On Their Cash And Not Spend It.

There's Nothing Magic About Spending On Tanks And Bombs Rather Than Roads And Bridges.