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Standard Oil Is the Antidote to Social Darwinism
There's this interest, like very american stripe that runs through people. And of course, rockefeller's defence to all this is saying, look, social darwinism is bad. Without standard oil rolling everyone up, you just have all these people producing non standard products and consumers won't trust them. So the way he sort of makes this argument is, it was a co operative success. It was for the general good. It was downright christian for me to do this and provide this service. He really seems to have deeply believed that this like, invisible hand, the atam smith concept of guides the free market,. That it cind of just takes too long