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For all the article's hand-wringing over "just how wide the American wealth gap has grown" - how luxurious was John Jacob Astor IV's voyage on the Titanic, comp
by bell-cot 1y ago
For all the article's hand-wringing over "just how wide the American wealth gap has grown" - how luxurious was John Jacob Astor IV's voyage on the Titanic, compared to the those of the 3rd-class passengers? Let alone the stokers - who toiled long hours every day in a sort of industrialized hell, shoveling coal into the ship's boilers.
- defragerator 1y ago[dead]