AtlasShrieked
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DAMNING: NO.Rockefeller founded Standard Oil. During the "guilded age", his monopoly brought down the price of oil quite a bit. And back then, politics were (are?) split into two groups--Rockefeller men (republicans) and JP Morgan men (democrats).
If he made money through government intervention, then that's not exactly a damning example of the evils of the free market, is it?
what it is is an example of how some free marketeers play hard and fast with then truth. Perot is an example of people who've made it big with lots of help from the public system yet who play the self made man myth for all it's worth. what I object to is how he is sometimes held up as an example of rugged individualism and self made American businessman when to me he is a parasite who forgot where he came from and where he got his start.