How did the economic development of the gilded age effect american freedom?

The new social order became cumbersome and not so easy to understand, while the country and her citizens were trying to understand it, their views about the convergence of wealth became unavoidable and inevitable by the changes happening around, wealth became proportional to effort exerted and those who were at the lower level of the social ladder became the burden of the government in terms of tax claims. The divide in the society became something that was visible