I think this is the living room downstairs, but the European Baroque extravagance made me dizzy. I’ve now been to four Vanderbilt mansions, so I’m halfway done. Fortunately, a combination of the Great Depression, regulation and taxation ended the Guilded Age, so the mansion spree ended. FDR convinced the last owner to donate this estate to the government, since she already had several other estates.

Today’s unregulated multi-billionaires fly rockets into space, while some regular citizens lack basic healthcare available for free in other countries. Corporations have more rights than pregnant women, but they pay little to zero taxes. I think individuals should be allowed to incorporate to get similar benefits. You would only owe tax on your savings, not your income, for example. Or maybe corporations should pay taxes like we do. Either way, we need to figure out a way to make things fairer, before everyone is broke except the one guy who owns all the corporations and robot workers. Maybe after AI puts the bankers, lawyers and doctors out of work, voters will decide that the system should work for people and not the other way around.