• zabadoh
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    6 hours ago

    100 years ago we just killed them and redistributed their wealth, which is part of what fixed the Great Depression.

    Wha? I thought Congress passed estate taxes starting in 1916, the robber barons didn’t live as long as today, so they died of old age and disease more-or-less like regular people.

    I never heard of many of them being killed.

    I’d be interested to hear more about patterns of killing.