Brilliant essay. Reminds me of my favorite economist, Thorstein Veblen, whose Theory of the Leisure Class, was a chronicle of our previous Gilded Age. I myself have spent much of my career trying to explain how neoliberalism quickly morphed into neofeudalism. You might like to look at a couple missives, e.g., https://daneke.medium.com/a-fair-and-decent-society-where-is-the-john-rawls-for-this-generation-21533c46a135