Elon Musk's Twitter bid is eerily similar to Jay Gould's Gilded Age telegraph deal - Axios

Gould was a Gilded Age robber barron whose control of the telegraph system ignited a panic about the power of the super-rich

A powerful 1%-er launches a takeover bid for a seemingly irreplaceable communications network, igniting a panic over the power of the super-rich. The intrigue: No, not Elon and Twitter. We're talkin… [+3496 chars]

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