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http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/51r5R3b9FgL.jpg331500It was called the Gilded Age. In the late 19th and early 20th century, there was extreme wealth and everybody else (remind you of another time?). Wall Street bankers back then were getting robbed, someone had to protect them. In