If you look at what many consider to be the golden age

Emphasis mine

I didn’t even say I consider it a golden age, because I don’t.

but it’s worse now than it was in the – what I’m now calling the first – gilded age.

The gilded age was not in the 1950s. Also, gilded age doesn’t mean golden age.

I think we’ve hit the end of productive conversation between the two of us on this subject

Agreed. Maybe next time read and understand some of the responses?