How little has changed.
It's unfortunate too.

In the book "The Richest Man In Babylon" they find the guy and he says that, if you were to give all the money to everyone, the bottom so to speak, after a short while the same people would amass all the money again. We actually got to see this when they locked down the world in 2020 and started printing money and handing it out.

Those who were well off, took the money, and invested it in real estate and other assets. The rest had to survive and spent it on rent and bills and food. So the same people, the grocery owner, the landlords, the big corporations, all accumulated the money. While the small businesses were forced to close, or accept buy-ins from the government for part ownership in their little companies. The rich get richer, and the poor get ground deeper into the dirt by capital.

How ruined are they now, how ruined are we all... And, this book "The Iron Heel" continues to fascinate.

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""He turned abruptly and irrelevantly upon Mr. Calvin. "Tell me," Ernest said, "if this is not true. You are compelled to form a new political party because the old parties are in the hands of the trusts. The chief ​obstacle to your Grange propaganda is the trusts. Behind every obstacle you encounter, every blow that smites you, every defeat that you receive, is the hand of the trusts.

Is this not so? Tell me." Mr. Calvin sat in uncomfortable silence.

'' Go ahead," Ernest encouraged.''

It is true," Mr. Calvin confessed. "We captured the state legislature of Oregon and put through splendid protective legislation, and it was vetoed by the governor, who was a creature of the trusts. We elected a governor of Colorado, and the legislature refused to permit him to take office. Twice we have passed a national income tax, and each time the supreme court smashed it as unconstitutional. The courts are in the hands of the trusts. We, the people, do not pay our judges sufficiently. But there will come a time—

"When the combination of the trusts will control all legislation, when the combination of the trusts will itself be the government," Ernest interrupted.

"Never! never!" were the cries that arose.

Everybody was excited and belligerent.

"Tell me," Ernest demanded, "what will you do when such a time comes?"
"We will rise in our strength !" Mr. Asmunsen cried,""