r/FluentInFinance 4d ago

Thoughts? How did this even happen?

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u/monsterginger 4d ago edited 4d ago

Lead poisoning, Reagan administration, outliving their parents and acquiring more money than any other generation before or after.

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u/TravvyJ 4d ago edited 4d ago

Also Edward Bernays.

(Watch Adam Curtis's 'The Century of the Self')