Vanderbilt family

But over the next 200 years, by means of wealth, media, and influence, America has ended up electing its very own aristocracy.

Be it the Bushes, the Kardashians, the Vanderbilts, or the Roosevelts, Certain families have firmly asserted themselves as the upper echelons of American society, but perhaps none more so than the Kennedys.

The Kennedy family are one of the most prominent and influential political dynasties in American history.

Having originated in Ireland, the family's American story began with Patrick Kennedy, an immigrant from County Wexford who settled in Boston in 1849.

And there was a railroad track.

And remember who created the railroads in the Finger Lakes? The Vanderbilts.

Right.

Which we know about the Vanderbilts.

The other thing you have to think about is the Thompson family, which opened up a lot of big banks, which was part of Sonnenberg Gardens, which is also another place we'll get to in another series that I exposed.

The Finger Lakes was one of the richest areas because Rochester, New York was known as the flower city at one time.

Like that's real.

There's Vanderbilts and you know what I mean? Like that's a thing.

But you're not that, right? And so those people, they have an easy time with this thing because they don't have anything to do.

No one around them has anything to do.

Everything else is you gave an AI 50 years of history.

And this is what it came up with, where it just randomly will drop names like, oh, we heard from the Vanderbilts earlier about the railways.

Becky Lynch and Liv Morgan, great main event.

I know you hated this show because you clearly hate women, but you do.

And a book that I read that opened my mind to it – I don't know if you have another book recommendation – was What Would the Rockefellers Do? I think that's what it's called, right? What the Rockefellers Would Do.

And it talked about the Rockefeller family and the Vanderbilt family and just the differences between how one over time, the Rockefeller family, was able to keep that pot growing over time using infinite banking while – Through taxes and handing it down, the Vanderbilt family, over time, their value of the family's pot just diminished over time, right? And so, great book.

I don't know if you have another book that you'd recommend, or your book, probably.

Yeah,

Reich says, this is like what happened in the first Gilded Age when we had robber barons.

Well, robber barons, that's what they ended up calling the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers.

But these are the guys that built the country, basically, the railroads, everything.

I say this is exhibit A in terms of a billionaire takeover of America.

Reich says this is like what happened in the first Gilded Age when we had robber barons.

Well, robber barons, that's what they ended up calling the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers.

But these are the guys that built the country, basically, the railroads, everything.

I say this is exhibit A in terms of a billionaire takeover of America.

It's fascinating because there is this American dream concept where you can come here and make a good living and provide for your family and that this belief of equality.

And then in reality, we've always had the Vanderbilts and the whomever else fucking families that own all the money.

And then in the mid 2000s, 20th century corporations were less taxed.

I believe corporations had to pay up to 70% tax up until the 1950s.