Comments on: In Praise of “Robber Barons”

By: yer

yer — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:31:40 +0000

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By: James Buchanan Duke

James Buchanan Duke — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:28:24 +0000

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By: JD Rockefeller

JD Rockefeller — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:27:30 +0000

No, I was not, and shall not be greedy. You see, after I realized that my money was granted to me by God’s will, I decided to donate, and give back to the world from which I had so much.

By: David price

David price — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:57:58 +0000

Here is a good example of the tenuous nature of climate change claims.I live in England where August has been cold and wet. We have had arctic air over the country for days. We are given to believe that the polar icecap is receding, but if the polar icecap was receding August in our part of the world would be hot and dry as when the icecap receded, westerlies would move northward and high pressure systems from the south predominate.
Something is not right. the polar icecap's doing fine.

By: cornelius vanderbilt the 12th

cornelius vanderbilt the 12th — Fri, 05 May 2006 13:00:28 +0000

this site really sucks!!!!! all the information is wrong. i was related to him. he was a great man and wasnt greedy! if he was greedy then why didnt he have more money than $679,000?

By: grumpY!

grumpY! — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:03:05 +0000

the robber barons are a true role model for today's business people. they almost managed to destroy the fre emarket entirely with their cheating, cartels, price gouging/undercutting etc.

it took the government to impose the free market on these people, and they fought this until the very very end.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:48:39 +0000

Great article, but we are learning this in History class and there is an other side. We are only do J.D. Rockefeller.

He cheated people: He paid a widow with children, $79,000 for what cost her husband $200,000, after telling her he would 'stand by her' and give her a fair price.
His competitors' kerosene wasn't just prone to explsoions; he helped it along. He paid off a guy to set off dynamite a rival refinery.

Basically, he wasn't all bad, but he wasn't all good either.

By: Jennifer Harris

Jennifer Harris — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:39:28 +0000

Do you happen to know which industrialist donated pipe organs to churches????? I can’t find that anywhere. I did however find that you are right and I reaally like your web site.

By: speedbird

speedbird — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:25:48 +0000

'The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition.'

- JD Rockefeller

By: Brian Moore

Brian Moore — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:03:13 +0000

While I completely agree that the portrayal of the “Robber Barons” as evil is wrong, and based on their perceived “greed,” these guys weren’t paragons of the free market — as you point out, they bribed and manipulated an extremely corrupt government (which was the real source of the problem) to get what they wanted. In my opinion, modern “robber barons” like Gates are far more noble than those of the late 1800’s.

I use Firefox, and you know what, it took me about 5 minutes to download, install it and start running it. Boom, monopoly gone

Amen. If Internet Explorer was a monopoly, then it had to have been the weakest monopoly in history.

Excellent work.