[Apocryphon]

> We can debate whether that's a feature or bug of capitalism

I wonder how different things were before Jack Welch became chair of General Electric and the deregulation of the ‘80s.

[drewcoo]

> I wonder how different things were before . . .

Do you mean after Justice Brandeis? After one of the Presidents Roosevelt? Do you mean the previous gilded age? Do you mean some other time entirely? It's not as though greed over time grew monotonically with a particular inflection point on Neutron Jack.

[Apocryphon]

Sure, but the ‘80s is within living memory and so is more easily comparable.