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In this regard we enter the terrain of the uncanny valley; something really off with this orchestration, something pulling the strings.
What is the payoff for triggering a Civil War #FillTheCoffers
#GildedAge tycoon, #JayGould, "I can hire one-half the working class to kill the other half."
Two ruthless financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, tried to crash America’s economy by cheating the gold market in 1869. Their secret scheme triggered Black Friday — Wall Street’s most shocking financial panic ever!
#BlackFriday #StockMarketCrash #FinancialCrisis #JayGould #JimFisk
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💰 Jay Gould: The robber baron who turned markets into weapons.
He built empires on manipulation, fear, and broken unions.
His legacy still echoes.
#History #Capitalism #JayGould #Brewminate
19th-century science and oligarchy humor.
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Astronomical Danger. (Reprinted from N.Y. Weekly) THE PEPPER-BOX, SELMER, TENN., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1891
"When did the rich become so delicate? #GildedAge financier #JayGould and #CorneliusVanderbilt understood that they were hated. Today’s #BillionaireiBoys #plutocrats are so desperate to be loved that they’d rather take a smile in the #OvalOffice than a #BullMarket." open.substack.com/pub/newrepub...
Following up #JayGould with #FredDouglas. Should be a good combo, because a retrenchment of slave power as segregation was one of the rotten things that were hidden by the gilding of America’s industrial era.
#JayGould is dead. I finished American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street this morning, and it was well worth the time.
On the last he might have had a point. There was a rumor that #JayGould had delayed vote totals being reported via Western Union’s telegraph service to give candidate James Blaine a chance to find more votes.
#JayGould, traveling on his yacht on doctor’s orders, stopped by My Vernon.
Violent strikes, strikes that looked like war or massacres, were a regular part of the Gilded Age. #HistoryBio #JayGould
The Gilded Age was gilded, even #JayGould ‘s country manner, Lyndhurst. So ornate it was used as the back drop of the semi-hippie, semi-dramatic 60’s TV show, Dark Shadows.
French realism was the art of Gilded Age New York. Picture these hanging in the walls of #JayGould ‘s country mansion. Surrounded by mahogany or fine plaster filigree.
Finally, Western Union Headquarters. A man like #JayGould might skip breakfast out and go directly to work, where he could have breakfast brought to him.
Maybe much dumber is harsh and a bit of recency bias. Clearly men like #JayGould were as socially ignorant and inept as Musk and Zuck, and not all Robber Barrons founded schools to quiet their raging conscience.
The Gilded Age has this over today’s Oligarch’s. Those guys didn’t hide away in palaces. They walked the streets. Went out in public. #JayGould got beat up on multiple occasions by people he cheated; guns pulled on him. Chased by mobs. He was a proper villain.
Edison on #JayGould. “His conscience seemed to have atrophied, but that may be due to the fact that he was contending with men who never had any to be atrophied.”
Edison said #JayGould “railed over it,” and that, “this struck me as abnormal.”
Gould was the son of an alcoholic abusive father, and lost his mother when he was quite young. Was money security against a harsh and arbitrary world for what always remained a scared lonely little boy?
Thomas Edison briefly worked for #JayGould. Later, Edison would tell the story of Gould in anger ordering his Western Union ticker tape machine removed from his office because the company he wished to compete with had raised the rate.
It’s possible that our entire mythology around wealth is just survivors guilt. Zuck’s real skill wasn’t programming. Facebook sucks. His real skill was fucking others over before they fucked him. I’m reading about #JayGould in emerging markets, that seems to be the pattern. Then the laws come.
#JayGould #HistoryBio most of the above comes from the book Jay Gould: American Rascal.
The rich are so disappointingly grubby. After being forced off the Erie Railroad Board because his crooked reputation was holding down the stock value as much as 60% #JayGould could have retired, young.
#JayGould, Andrew Carnegie, Daniel Drew, Cornelius Vanderbilt, etc. all built their fortunes off insider-trading. Legal back then, but always morally dubious.
Reading about #JayGould, and it seems to me we’re living in another Gilded Age. I know that’s not an original thought.
Reading a biography about #JayGould, and journalist regularly report on the amount of money Capitalists brought to Albany to bribe politicians, like it was the weather report.
Failing to bribe well was a point of criticism.
The time of #JayGould wasn’t lawless, it’s just that the laws were written in a way to make them practically worthless. Today’s #SCOTUS would love it.
Judge George Bernard, “numbered among the Vanderbilt properties,” was a Yake graduate and failed prospector who knew “as much about law as a yellow dog.” He relied on Vanderbilt’s lawyers to write his opinions. #HistoryBio #JayGould
#JayGould, lost a mother, two step mother and a sister in four years. In that same time his father became an abusive, embarrassing alcoholic.
How many people become traditionally, but wildly, successful as the result of maladjusted coping skills?
#JayGould it’s 1873. Gould has just sat down to lunch at Delmonico, the most famous restaurant in New York, in America, arguably the World.
A whitewashed bust of #JayGould that Pierce kept over the bed on a shelf so narrow for it she'd always had the hovering fear it would someday topple on them.
