Say what you will about the robber barrons. We still have rockefeller, carnegie, and vanderbilt buildings, institutions, and colleges today. Being a patron for general public welfare was at least socially popular for the ultra wealthy capitalists in this country 100 years ago. A shame how that has changed.
We don't call them robber barons anymore, they've succeeded enough at spinning their entrepreneurship in the public eye that they don't need to build those institutions these days
Instead they now buy enough land to keep common folk far enough away from them on what used to be areas free to roam, eg what they're doing in Hawaii
We still have rockefeller, carnegie, and vanderbilt buildings, institutions, and colleges today
A very narrow slice of American geography has those things, primarily within the Mid-Atlantic and New England states.
Regardless, they did that kind of thing back then because there was a real risk of a lower-class uprising if they didn't at least pretend to care about the little people.
They did that where they lived. Chances are if some town in texas or wherever had a local magnate in the 1920s they made similar investments in the local community.
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Say what you will about the robber barrons. We still have rockefeller, carnegie, and vanderbilt buildings, institutions, and colleges today. Being a patron for general public welfare was at least socially popular for the ultra wealthy capitalists in this country 100 years ago. A shame how that has changed.
We don't call them robber barons anymore, they've succeeded enough at spinning their entrepreneurship in the public eye that they don't need to build those institutions these days
Instead they now buy enough land to keep common folk far enough away from them on what used to be areas free to roam, eg what they're doing in Hawaii
I’ve visited Lanai, you can too you know.
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A very narrow slice of American geography has those things, primarily within the Mid-Atlantic and New England states.
Regardless, they did that kind of thing back then because there was a real risk of a lower-class uprising if they didn't at least pretend to care about the little people.
They did that where they lived. Chances are if some town in texas or wherever had a local magnate in the 1920s they made similar investments in the local community.