The civil law system is expensive and takes years to work IF it works. Off the top of my head you can ask your congressman to make you immune from liability, force all your employees into binding arbitration with someone whose services YOU pay for and forbid group actions, work to appoint increasingly conservative judges who believe in fewer and fewer rights.

Just ensuring that nobody without thousands to drop on the matter up front can probably get you out of a majority of jams.

You're right, they have. Unfortunately, having failed to retain the lessons of the first Gilded Age, we're now well into a second, and closer to its inevitable failure and collapse than to its "morning in America" beginning. So it goes.

First Guilded Age is what made America wealthy. I would not call what we have now a Guilded Age- look at the debt. We have been squandering that first Guilded Age's wealth since 1933, but these things have a lot of inertia.

Post-WW2, which had remarkably lower levels of inequality, is what made America wealthy. The first guilded age gave us the depression.

> The first guilded age gave us the depression.

This seems like a stretch.

The great depression was more than a generation after the gilded age ended, and after a world war followed by an economic boom (roaring 20s).

The US became a word power during the gilded age.