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The US was not the richest in the 1890s. In 1899 the GDP per capita was $7,959, in 2022 it is $58,487. US government revenues have also drastically increased as a percentage of GDP. Increasing from 3.3% in 1899 to 36.3% in 2022. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison?tab=chart&country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/government-spending#government-spending-in-early-industrialised-countries-grew-remarkably-during-the-last-century
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