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Standard Oil Part II

Acquired

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Standard Oil and the Break Up

The government had a really big investment in this, where we talked about how standard oils really the first modern corporation. Roosevelt sort of set the play book for the modern billionaire. This is also massively expanding the might of the justice department in a way that the us Had never seen before. There's like a really important lesson here about the danger of too much centralization and consolidation of power in a single entity.

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