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32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares

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Is There a Wage Gap?

The entire economy was different and segregated, right? They didn't pay people in dollars that they could use. The script kind of covered up for the fact that it gave people a sense of agency where there really wasn't any. These coal barons had private armies in the form of things like the detective agency. And the unions had private armies themselves. I mean, there was black slavery through coal as well.

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