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Learn more about our documentary, THE GILDED AGE, including where to watch the full film: wwwpbsorg/wgbh/americanexperience/films/gilded-age/
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Imagine 100 years from now, and PBS makes a documentary about gilded age 2000-2025, what our future generaiton would watch
Comment from : Oenjiels van Soekamadjoe

I hope we are not in another guilded age
Comment from : jws1948ja

The rich are worthless
Comment from : towada106

We've learned nothing
Comment from : Krenshaw Biggums

It puts money back into the economy
Comment from : shadrach

I would have loved to have a nannie for my kids
Comment from : shadrach

Ever a chance to promote division and Marxism
Comment from : James Linder

Rodney Dangerfield had a joke about a grandfather who made the family fortune and his decedents were Putzes It is so true today When we had inheritance taxes, the successful people had their wealth taxed and plowed back into the country This set the stage for the next group of smart, tough and lucky people to find financial success Now we're like Europe We have idle wealthy people leading our decline If they had to work and compete to re-attain wealth they would grow the economy or make room for tougher, smarter, harder working people who find better ways to do things
Comment from : 3321far

The Gilded Age is the product of the triumphant Federal armies under Lincoln He was a wealthy railroad lawyer and one of the main disputes between the Northern and Southern senators was where to build a new railroad-the South wanted it to go through a Southern route, while the North wouldn't hear of it After the War, the first order of business was the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, at taxpayer expense (costing thousands per mile through graft and corruption0 and the concomitant expansion of the wealth and "power" of the elite Northerners such as Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and even Carnegie, among others Grant, the most aggressive Northern general of the war, laying siege to cities of civilians such as Vickburg, Atlanta and Richmond, and laying waste through Sherman to countless civilian homes and farms, became president, and was noted for the utter corruption of his administration With this came the grinding poverty of new immigrants to Northern cities and of the sons of the Federal troops who helped the North, Lincoln and Grant win The South, of course, while the wealthiest antebellum part of America, and with more founding fathers and previous presidents from the South, became after the War the poorest part of the country, for both black and white
Comment from : Karen Bartlett

Car-neggy?
Comment from : JW Deveaux

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Comment from : Lady Honor

3:05 if ever their was a Face to put to that ROT underneath you're looking at it
Comment from : 65th Hitman

The Gilded Age gave birth to the Robber Barons, who were simply pirates, thieves, and scoundrels by another name
Comment from : jntj

Hooray for the idle rich!
Comment from : Zach Barnhart

How little things have changed rich n the rest of us
Comment from : acmelka

this is just a commercial for pbs streaming tacky and greedy
Comment from : Dawn Salois

How does a pile of money signify success?
Comment from : pikeman80

My father was a secret-policeman: the dividing-line btw good+evil was NIXON's 1973 reforms, Kefauver 1951, women's suffrage, voter suppression + legalizing prostitution The super-rich got MURDERED for their coats, hats, books, diaries + handguns
Comment from : Ms Silence Dogood

not much of a different today, we they working class are struggling to live due to the economy
Comment from : RM

The Marxist political misrepresentation always infuriates me If you read diaries from the gilded age, even the poor in cities were actually much more happy and hopeful than anyone today There was so much opportunity, and stable prices with the gold and silver coined money, people could literally build a meaningful, happy life and save for old age without having to worry about central bank engineered market crashes stealing reducing their pension funds to nothing, or central bank engineered inflation eroding the value away Most people lived and worked their farms, and some land was FREE, granted to anyone willing to contribute to building this country The past is cast in a negative light so people don't question the stressful life under heavy taxation, with little opportunity, and being unable to compete in business with multinational megacap corporations
Comment from : Valerie Price

Where can one watch this documentary outside of the USA? South Africa to be specific
Comment from : Fifi

It amazes me how anyone can seriously talk like this age ever really ended
Comment from : Winston Wins

I want the history not left wing minded progressives simping for bombings and there divisive social campaigns
Comment from : Michael John

The Gilded Age TV series brought me here
Comment from : MississippiMillionaire

One of my ancestors came to The US before the Civil War a 2 year old orphan, watched by the women on the boat, he started a small company through hard work and sacrifice the company grew and when he died 90 years later he was a multimillionaire He alway said that if I can do it anyone can
Comment from : japanjack62

Such a waste and shame
Comment from : Eunice Stone

i'm here for school
Comment from : bethany

Naprawdę wierzycie , że przy pomocy wozów konnych możnaby stworzyć te architektoniczne dzieła sztuki? Haha O! Naiwności Ja rozumiem, że Ameryka to ,,stan umysłu" ale żeby aż tak kłamać Typowe dla anglo-sasów 🤣🤣🤣
Comment from : Jane Kovalsky

If you weren't rich you were nothing
Comment from : Larry

My Caucasian teacher is making me watch this for my African American history 😐😐 brbrI’m tired of paying for classes to learn about more YT people
Comment from : Destini X Shakur

We're all one and our one person
Comment from : Andy Lava

At five minutes into this damned video I had to stop--it was obviously made by leftists who have a grudge against the US, the most blessed nation in the history of planet Earth To hell with PBS who takes taxpayer dollars to propagandize against this great nation
Comment from : gym shoe

Unlike the past the present wealthy live all over the world They don't just think of America They are almost lawless
Comment from : Judy Florida

Anybody see the guys hat being snatched away and the look of surprise he had? 😂😂😂
Comment from : Shena

Why all the imagery off the french aristocrats in the 1700s to represent us in the late 1800’s Its baiting
Comment from : Getting Out of Beekeeping

Somethings do not change with the exception of learning to conceal you wealth
Comment from : Dr Caleb ROBBINS

This is what Biden and the Democrats are doing now to the people of the United States
Comment from : Peter Bowen

5:03 It's simply not a documentary on American history if HW Brands isn't in it
Comment from : Boots

Not too dissimilar in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
Comment from : dinoninja47

"Hope and Change and Yes, We Can" but, No, he DIDNT
Comment from : Tim Nelligan

Why did all the rich people look like King Louis 14th?
Comment from : Vu Ho

Minus the industrial production ( mostly being done in countries where there is child labour and workers not receiving a living wage)…The divide between the haves, and the have nots, has only grown beyond all former imagination The wheel has turned full circle, back to where it once was…only worse🖤🇨🇦
Comment from : Tamarra James

We have another Gilded age, today Look at the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, while the middle class continues to shrink When you lose the middle class, you end up with a tyrannical elite, and that is what we have, now
Comment from : Samson 95

We are still two nations -- seemingly divided forever
Comment from : American Citizen

I love how the expert couldn’t recall the word “cobbler” Middle class persons talking about the have nots Sponsored by the rich PBS, bravo
Comment from : Anna Carter

I don't care what they say the rich did not own America they might have thought they did but boy when things went down it went down hard and bad and they were the losers
Comment from : Holly Bosworth

Sounds like Davos
Comment from : Michael McWhorter

PLEASE PLEASE MORE HISTORY THANKS A MILLION!!!
Comment from : Cloromira Trevino

"The meek may inherit the Earth, but only long enough until the strong take it back again" Gunnery Seargent Gernheim to his Marine recruits in the novel "The Short Timers" Which is the novel Full Metal Jacket is based on
Comment from : jacktheripoff1888

Obscene psychotic lot
Comment from : Sleep no Mo

I don't think it's the majority view of Academics that the Progressive movement was a Class reaction such as the French or Russian Revolutions that the Producers of this clip are trying to imply😊
Comment from : Cueball 7

The thing that these reporters overlook is that even the poorest people were moving rapidly out of poverty during the gilded age due to much more economic growth and career opportunities
Comment from : 40 GPA

Nothing has changed
Comment from : Missy the Cat

There’s always going to be poor people and wealthy sorry life is tuff but poor people still have it way better than their ancestors so stop bitchin
Comment from : AirPower 🇺🇸

this was shot in my town in Troy NY, Troy is full of crap always trying to get and seek attention
Comment from : Family Is Everything1617

Watch it!! E CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!🙏FARMERS KEEP YA ALL ALIVE
Comment from : Susan Long

This country by next year 😢
Comment from : Susanne Schmidt

Another left leaning PBS documentary
Comment from : Michael Cap

If you haven't noticed, the US is in another Gilded Age with an extreme wealth gap
Comment from : Lulu

All of these commentators are considered the 1 globally, their judgments and college educated hypocrisy is far more obnoxious, than the Gilded Age millionaires
Comment from : NCP Realty

So, what's changed? Now we simply call them the 1
Comment from : Elizabeth

What a wonderful time to be a snob
Comment from : Nonie Kendrick

I'm here because curiosity is killing my cat‼️😷🎉🎊😉
Comment from : cecelia mathews

typical communist propaganda Most of "the poor" were immigrants, who were far better off her than in the countries brthey came from As for having a future, the Marx Bros came from impoverished parents They succeeded, and so did brothers who tried
Comment from : ciroalb3

With inflation today, the divide between the have and have not is expanding We are going into a time when the focus is on how such enormous wealth was gathered by so few, and the emergence that some have gathered that money, or have had money invested in their company from less than exalted means
Comment from : Rachel26

sooooo not much has changed
Comment from : UwU

How curious it's been the 1 thru decades the privilege rich
Comment from : Joni Se

Shinny exterior with the rott underneathwow!!!
Comment from : fire lioness

Yeah yeah, we know what gilded means
Comment from : Claire N

America was built on hard work You don't work, you don't eatbrbrAmerica is the home for dreamers; who are willing to work hard to make it happenbrbrAmerica is the birthplace of inspiration, motivation and to 'get off your can' to do something productive and worthwhilebrbrWe don't tolerate whiners, and people with entitlement issuesbrbrGod blessed our great nation brbrAmerica was founded on Christian principles We are a Christian nationbrbrAmenAmen
Comment from : Jami G

2020 energy
Comment from : Eve Gusman

I say nothing much has bleeping changed plain and simple!
Comment from : Mrs Anonymous

Fucking socialists translating history - go live in North Korea you weasel communists They will all be public servants sponging off the taxpayer and congratulating themselves over their lattes
Comment from : Tony Miller

"Equality" and the level playing field are concepts They are not possible Equality is an ideal to strive for There is no level playing field because there is more than one field
Comment from : Jacks medulla oblongata

Those 1 also MADE opportunities for themselves as well as others They created jobs and entire industries that didn't exist before them The masses would not have had those industries or jobs if these people didn't create them Cars, trains, manufacturing, steel, everything
Comment from : Jacks medulla oblongata

May we have more American British & British American marriages today as well as in our future ❤️🇺🇲🇬🇧💒👍🙏✡️✝️✡️
Comment from : Love America, USA

Mrs Astors ancestors were tradesmen Though nowdays this would mean nothing, to her European contemporaries it would have meant everything She and her family would not have been received into polite society
Comment from : Ann-Caroline Mörner

They didn’t invent anything? He’s nuts
Comment from : Katharine Santana

I thought it was strange when in at 4:54, the person said, "American had been founded for a country of farmers" These men weren't farmers They managed concentration camps that yielded crops My 7th great uncle, John Hart, signed the Declaration of Independence He is listed in a monument in DC as a "farmer" But he owned enslaved people He was more akin to a higher-up in the SS than a farmer, I'm sorry to say And one study shows that 73 of the signers managed these concentration camps for profit
Comment from : Corinne Shutack

Shamefulto think all the poor people who had jobs most likely worked for these robber barrons it boggles the mind to think that they worked for peanuts and these rich guys saw all the profits
Comment from : Christine Yetman

The heavy handedness of the propaganda here must mean the Deep State is desperate Enough was spent on the ball to feed all the working class for a year? Well, who got that money? The millionaires paid it out to working class people to prepare the food, pay for the food, transport it, etc Marx forbid the farmers were paid for growing it, the middle classes worked for it, the poor got some money for their work PBS is a fascist organization, communist branch, not the Germanic socialist branch, like Birth Control eugenicists exterminating people of color as Margaret Sanger and Woodrow Wilson wanted But they are all in it together Natural World (economic) Order NWO from the German “Nazi” is just a subset
Comment from : John Christopher

Now thanks to the Federal Government, the politicians are the elitists and the working class have become serfs It's time to remind the politicians (of every stripe) that they are public servants of "We The People" brI'll take it one step further: Today and in the recent past people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and the likes of them have taken advantage of the CAPITALIST system to make gazillions of dollars The "so-called" Robber Barons of the 19th century built libraries, hospitals, museums, and funded scholarships What have the present "robber barons" done? Censor free speech, played the anti-fuel game, and tried to reduce the population NO GOOD
Comment from : Paula Pacente

How foolish human beings are
Comment from : shadrach

I hope we can get out of gilded age 20, I love this country
Comment from : samuelfranklin

During the Gilded Age, my paternal grandparents were among the working poor in lower Michigan Their status was not affected by the great economic dichotomy brought on by all the hubbub of the daybrbrMeanwhile, my maternal grandparents were farming in northeast Missouri and were also unaffected Their financial situation was substantially better than that of my father's family
Comment from : GrandmaNita

It is not true that these men did not “invent” anything Almost all these men were born poor and destitute - Carnegie, Rockefeller were both born into extreme poverty - but what they invented was enhancements to production of steel and oil that made the goods cheaper, better, and consistent Just like today there was tremendous economic mobility - a person starting out in the lowest 20 at age 18 was not expected to remain there, just as today (3 remain there today)
Comment from : CX A340

It’s shocking to see that PBS in unable to see anything good about this period The poor people they show are immigrants who came from oppressive countries that wouldn’t give their people any hope for the future, nor decent job opportunity Those millions who came found them in America Their children became businessmen and professionals who contributed so much to American industry, agriculture and culture But the leftist ideology wouldn’t allow PBS to give an honest account
Comment from : Helen Ostashevsky