I mean, they are probably the biggest winner from the pandemic, right?

Yes, they are. I mean, the sales were already huge, but they're up 40% year over year.

And stock went up 86%.

Basel's personal wealth increased 58 billion in one year, 500,000 more workers,

50% more warehouse space in just a year.

It is just on an order we can't even really conceive of.

And it's, I gotta say, it has been striking to me just the

alacrity with which a lot of us embrace this new existence, the one-click existence.

Hello, and welcome to Wise is Happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

You know, when you think about the Guilded Age in American life,

when you think about the periods say 1870 to the First World War, they're about,

you may or may not be that familiar with that period of American history.

It's a fascinating period of American history.

And there's a lot going on.

The two big things I think that we tend to think about our massive industrialization,

you start having factories and the things that look like a modern industrial life.

You start getting what look like sort of recognizably modern cities.

And you also have this incredible concentration of wealth in what we're at the time

called robberbearans, more sympathetically called captains of industry.

And you think about Carnegie or Rockefeller and the like.

And, you know, the way that those robberbearans made their money,

the way that you make super, super, super, super psycho money in capitalism is to

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