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There have been boom times for the very wealthy, such as the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century, when 2% of American households owned more than a third of the country’s wealth, or indeed our own time, when the top 1% owns almost half the wealth.

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For instance, imagine that in 1900, you owned 100 acres of land someplace in the Midwest.

Part of my work now is really laying the groundwork to integrate urban ag and rural food systems to hasten the demise of the 3,000-mile salad by creating a national brand of urban-grown produce in every city, that uses regional growing power and augments it with indoor growing facilities, owned and operated by small growers, where now there are only consumers.

And then he describes the home he owned in their village.

He had just signed the contract to sell his New York apartment at a six-figure profit, and he'd only owned it for five years.

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