Is America in a New Gilded Age? Wealth, Power, and Democracy

Give that the gilded age was characterized by a massive spike in wages... No. No, we aren't. Or rather, yes, we are, but only for a very select few people. For the rest of us, we're entering into a new depression.

More like an actual decline and fall of empire, whereas the 19th century Gilded Age was unbridled prosperity for some and unrestricted exceptionalism for most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines