Plutocracy is the natural state of a capitalist society. But America managed to break out of it briefly in roughly the 1940s-70s period, and has since regressed

Plutocracy is the natural state of a capitalist society. But America managed to break out of it briefly in roughly the 1940s-70s period, and has since regressed to the mean. So in a "what your grandparents remember" sense, things have definitely gotten worse.