Americans are increasingly worried about the rising tide of economic inequality, as fewer control more wealth.
- Daniel Mandell
- The National Interest
For the origins of these concerns, commentators usually point to the Gilded Age at the end of the 19th century, when a few men gained immense wealth and power in the U.S. and…
But fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.
- Wealth as a danger to the nation
By the 1700s…