Productive Displacement enters the zeitgeist. "During the Gilded Age (approx. 1870–1900), the federal government adopted a laissez-faire approach, favoring pro-business policies like high tariffs, the gold standard, and land grants to railroads. This resulted in widespread corruption, political machines, and close collusion between officials and "robber barons," which triggered intense labor unrest, wealth inequality, and the rise of Populist reform movements." Time is a flat circle.. Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.. History doesn't repeat, but..