"Rather than standing up for average Americans," said the Independent U.S. senator, the president is "protecting the interests of some of the wealthiest people in the world."
I think you’re giving too much credit to the robber barons of old. They also were exploitive and considered themselves above the law, perhaps even more than today. Those virtues tended to be after the fact, when they start feeling their mortality, caring about what legacy they leave behind .
Take Bill Gates as a better comparison to robber barons of old . You may be too young to understand just how bad a reputation he had, he could be as cut throat as anyone, and most of his good deeds have been since retirement. Don’t get me wrong, Bill Gates has turned into quite a force for good, but he wasn’t when he ran Microsoft
I watched the docu (series?) about him a handful of years ago. It made me like him. Then he argued against open-sourcing the covid vax and I’ve hated him ever since.
I was a die-hard Mac user in the 90s. I hated him then, but I was too young to know much about his business ruthlessness. I did know “embrace, extend, extinguish” in the 2000s. IE completely halted development of the web for a long time. Firefox shook things up. Chrome is the new IE. Le sigh…
I think you’re giving too much credit to the robber barons of old. They also were exploitive and considered themselves above the law, perhaps even more than today. Those virtues tended to be after the fact, when they start feeling their mortality, caring about what legacy they leave behind .
Take Bill Gates as a better comparison to robber barons of old . You may be too young to understand just how bad a reputation he had, he could be as cut throat as anyone, and most of his good deeds have been since retirement. Don’t get me wrong, Bill Gates has turned into quite a force for good, but he wasn’t when he ran Microsoft
I watched the docu (series?) about him a handful of years ago. It made me like him. Then he argued against open-sourcing the covid vax and I’ve hated him ever since.
I was a die-hard Mac user in the 90s. I hated him then, but I was too young to know much about his business ruthlessness. I did know “embrace, extend, extinguish” in the 2000s. IE completely halted development of the web for a long time. Firefox shook things up. Chrome is the new IE. Le sigh…