Bernie Sanders: “Inequality is much worse than it was in the Gilded Age.”

“Remember the Gilded Age of the time of Rockefeller and Carnegie and J.P. morgan and Jay Gould and all those guys at the end of the 19th century. And everyone said, wow, how unequal society was. Gilded Age right now Inequality is much worse than it was in the Gilded Age. You got one guy, Mr. Musk, owning more wealth than the bottom half of American households. Top 1%, owning more wealth than the bottom 93%. The American people see that.” (02:31–02:36)

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