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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:27 Chapter 1: The Rise of Wealth
3:53 Chapter 2: Robber Barons
08:23 Chapter 3: The Roaring 20s
13:08 Chapter 4: The Great Compression
21:49 Chapter 6: The Rise of Tech
25:30 Chapter 7: Internet Boom
29:13 Chapter 9: The Great Recession
35:31 Chapter 10: The Great Shift
40:12 Chapter 11: The New American Dream
44:32 Chapter 12: Robber Barons Return
47:47 Chapter 13: Reaganomics
50:36 Conclusion
This video is the full story of how America went from a country where being “middle class” was the norm… to a place where a few hundred billionaires control trillions of dollars, our data, our attention, and basically the direction of modern life.
Across 150 years — from the robber barons, to the Great Depression and Great Compression, to the tech boom, the 2008 crash, hustle culture, Cambridge Analytica, COVID, and the billionaire explosion — this video breaks down how wealth concentrated at the top, how the middle class was quietly gutted, and how tech companies ended up shaping our minds more than our lives.
It’s about the rise of modern oligarchs, the death of stable prosperity, and the price we pay for the convenience, connectivity and “innovation” that rule our world.
If you’ve ever wondered how we got from Andrew Carnegie to Elon Musk… or why life feels so much harder than it did for previous generations… this is the story.
#volksgeist #billionaire #palantir #donaldtrump #news #politics #johnnyharris
Cop a Wonderful Secret crewneck sweater:
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philip@volksgeist.org for business
volksgeist.org
patreon.com/volksgeist
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:27 Chapter 1: The Rise of Wealth
3:53 Chapter 2: Robber Barons
08:23 Chapter 3: The Roaring 20s
13:08 Chapter 4: The Great Compression
21:49 Chapter 6: The Rise of Tech
25:30 Chapter 7: Internet Boom
29:13 Chapter 9: The Great Recession
35:31 Chapter 10: The Great Shift
40:12 Chapter 11: The New American Dream
44:32 Chapter 12: Robber Barons Return
47:47 Chapter 13: Reaganomics
50:36 Conclusion
This video is the full story of how America went from a country where being “middle class” was the norm… to a place where a few hundred billionaires control trillions of dollars, our data, our attention, and basically the direction of modern life.
Across 150 years — from the robber barons, to the Great Depression and Great Compression, to the tech boom, the 2008 crash, hustle culture, Cambridge Analytica, COVID, and the billionaire explosion — this video breaks down how wealth concentrated at the top, how the middle class was quietly gutted, and how tech companies ended up shaping our minds more than our lives.
It’s about the rise of modern oligarchs, the death of stable prosperity, and the price we pay for the convenience, connectivity and “innovation” that rule our world.
If you’ve ever wondered how we got from Andrew Carnegie to Elon Musk… or why life feels so much harder than it did for previous generations… this is the story.
#volksgeist #billionaire #palantir #donaldtrump #news #politics #johnnyharris
