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In real life, the robber-baron industrialists and financiers of Wall Street were no more aristocrats than my grandma from the shtetl. They were parvenus.

the Reagan era ushered in a new age of Mammon-worship

the most august financiers had been paraded before congressional investigating committees where their helplessness, ignorance, and multifarious schemes of self-enrichment had been made public and excoriated

It penetrates the lowest depths of proletarian life: that is, its seductions inveigle even the working poor

Once in the United States, they joined their efforts with homegrown superannuated farmers and handicrafters displaced by the machine and the factory’s finely reticulated division of labor