The Rise and Fall of the Social Titans

At that time there was no income tax in our country. Rockefeller was much richer than Then Bill Gates or Elon Musk is comparatively today He controlled I think 80% of the oil in the world and so you had this tremendous wealth. They were owned by these big Social Titans these robber barons, who really suppressed American democracy. And then a group of things happened when there was social movements broad grassroots social movements By at the beginning of the 20th century The populist movement, which is in the countrysideThe progressive movement, which was in the cities and the reform movement Which was republican the pop is known was Democrat, but they got together.