Capitalism is Killing Our Democracy

We’re in the middle of a second Gilded Age, and no one wants to admit unrestrained capitalism is the problem

A political cartoon from 1883 aimed at wealthy businessmen Cyrus Field (1819-1892), Jay Gould (1836-1892), Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), and Russell Sage (1816-1906). Laborers awash in a sea of hard times struggle to hold up the lumber, paper, and linen industries with low-wage jobs on their backs as the industrialists and their millions weigh them …