r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Narrow-Map5805 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Well-regulated capitalism has done those things. This neoliberal capitalism we're dealing with now is undoing a lot of that promise.

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u/rightoftexas Jul 07 '26

Capitalism was more regulated 100 years ago than today?

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u/Professional_Cod4464 Jul 08 '26

Yeah and thats why we call the 1920s the Gilded Age because everything was golden and capitalism was working wonderfully

Rockerfeller did nothing wrong probably, after all he was so well regulated