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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei mused in a 38-page essay last week that today’s wealth inequality recalls the late 19th century’s Gilded Age.
In the 19th century, a song that sold 2,000-5,000 copies of sheet music could be considered a hit; a blockbuster moved 10,000-20,000.
What it says about America: The rising tide of gentility and middle-class values swept across American culture during the second half of the 19th century, says Fink.
What it says about America: America was a sentimental people at the turn of the 20th century, and women—the keepers of that romantic flame—were beginning to discover their power.
The song, performed a few minutes into the movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and in 2001, it was anointed as the greatest song of the 20th century in a joint survey by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
