How the Pie is Sliced

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Identifier: JML.MS1133.Walker.2025
Barcode: JML.MS1133.Walker.2025
Title: How the Pie is Sliced
Description: Text of a lecture delivered to the Sphex Club in Lynchburg. On March 20, 2025, Walker Sydnor delivered a critical exploration of wealth inequality in the United States, tracing the evolution of elite power from feudal land ownership to modern tech oligarchs. Citing historical and contemporary examples, Sydnor argued that unchecked wealth concentration endangers democracy and proposed that past responses to elite control may guide today’s reform efforts in pursuit of a fairer society.
Date: 20 March 0025
Creator: Sydnor, Walker
Subject: United States of America -- economy; Economics -- inequality
topic: talk; lecture; SPHEX Club; Walker Sydnor; Sydnor; 03/20/2025; wealth inequality; American oligarchy; tech billionaires; political corruption; trickle-down economics; elite philanthropy; Gilded Age; Federal Reserve; historical wealth; Reaganomics; social justice
Location: Lynchburg, Virginia
Digital Format: pdf
Language: English
Publisher: George M. Jones Library Association
Repository: George M. Jones Library Association
Rights: George M. Jones Library Association; Sydnor, Walker
Rights Holder: Sydnor, Walker; George M. Jones Library Association