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Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I'm reading this book, and it's like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling "oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!" Not as blatant and (I don't know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I'm missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government's overreach..... Etc, it's all here now.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (4 children)

One man is born with immense wealth, grows up to gain even more wealth and total control of an entire geographic region and wants to control more land, wealth and people ... his thirst for power is insatiable and costing the lives of hundreds, thousands and even millions of people.

Guess the century.

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Tale as old as time