… today, how we got here, and how we as people can get to a very better place. So let me begin by telling you what many of you already know. Never before in American history have so few people held so much wealth and even more importantly, held so much power. Today in America, we have more income and wealth inequality than we've ever had in the history, the long history of our country. We all study the Gilded Ages, remember that? (04:18–04:32)
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Asserts unprecedented concentration of wealth and power in American history.
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