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by svnpenn 4y ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
- roenxi 4y agoInequality much more extreme than that was quite stable. Antoinette was only wealthy compared to people in the 1700s. She was basically an equal to the peasants wealth-wise compared to the inequality we've seen since after the industrial revolution. We've probably got more poor people today than were alive then in absolute numbers, and our wealthy are orders of magnitude more wealthy. And the situation is much more stable.