Dr.Dross wrote:
Your comments back in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries was chorused by Congress. The "Robber Barons" as they were known were monopolizing whatever they could. They were seen at the time as "top of the food chain." Darwin's book was the rage: "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest" perfectly described those men:
John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur) – New York
Andrew Carnegie (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
William A. Clark (copper) – Butte, Montana[17]
Jay Cooke (finance) – Philadelphia
Charles Crocker (railroads) – California
Daniel Drew (finance) – New York
James Buchanan Duke (tobacco) – Durham, North Carolina
Marshall Field (retail) – Chicago[18]
James Fisk (finance) – New York
Henry Morrison Flagler (Standard Oil, railroads) – New York and Florida[19]
Henry Clay Frick (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
John Warne Gates (barbed wire, oil) – Texas[20]
Jay Gould (railroads) – New York[21]
Edward Henry Harriman (railroads) – New York[22]
Charles T. Hinde (railroads, water transport, shipping, hotels) – Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, California
Mark Hopkins (railroads) – California
Collis Potter Huntington (railroads) – California
Lars Kovala (land speculator, railroads) – California, Wisconsin, Michigan
Andrew W. Mellon (finance, oil) – Pittsburgh
J. P. Morgan (finance, industrial consolidation) – New York
John Cleveland Osgood (coal mining, iron) – Colorado[23]
Henry B. Plant (railroads) – Florida[24]
John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) – Cleveland, New York
Henry Huttleston Rogers (Standard Oil; copper), New York.[25]
Charles M. Schwab (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
Joseph Seligman (banking) – New York
John D. Spreckels (water transport, railroads, sugar) – California
Leland Stanford (railroads) – California
Cornelius Vanderbilt (water transport, railroads) – New York[26]
Charles Tyson Yerkes (street railroads) – Chicago[27]
James J. Hill (fuel, coal, steamboats, railroads) - St Paul, Minnesota
The term robber baron derives from the Raubritter (robber knights), the medieval German lords who charged nominally illegal tolls (unauthorized by the Holy Roman Emperor) on the primitive roads crossing their lands[1] or larger tolls along the Rhine river — all without adding anything of value, but instead lining their pockets at the cost of the common good (rent seeking).
The employees of the Robber Barons were treated as sub-humans. This treatment will become de rigueur under Trump and his elitist nominees. Social Darwinism!
Your comments back in the late 19th and early 20th... (
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Damn Dr. Douche, don't you think times have changed in 150 years?