The point of view about the economy expressed by the artist is negative toward the men of big business. Field,Gould, Vanderbilt, and one other businessmen are depicted as fat men sitting on their millions in bags, while their workers are holding up the goods the men sell such as cloth, lumber, and paper. The artist takes the side of the working class men who hold up the businesses. It shows how they make so little money and yet without them, the company wouldn't stay afloat. During the Gilded Age in 1865-1910, americans worked many hours with very little money while business owners just sat and made money. To support the artist's point of view that the working class held the weight of the big businesses while the owners sat rich and pretty,
