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Andrew Carnegie was worth something like 300 billion USD (today, inflation adjusted). So that level of wealth was not unknown by the time of the Eisenhower administration.


Good point!

On that note, trust-busting is also worth discussing as a counter to the modern concentration of wealth.




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