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The Robber Barons weren't in the 1920s; that refers to industrial age monopolists (e.g. rail/oil), and culminated in the Sherman Antitrust (i.e. 1800s).

Broadly, your point is still valid, though. Just a mild inaccuracy between the Gilded Age and the roaring 20s.

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