The New Gilded Age (2022)
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Why Do People Hate Robert Barons?
Rockefellers were called Robert Barons for a reason. They made it through exploiting their workers, which created conditions for workers to strike. The public deeply resented that and the fear was primarily they would in effect buy state legislatures or ultimately they would buy Congress. In September of 1913, the same year Rockefeller started his foundation, about 10,000 coal miners went on strike against low pay and awful working conditions in Rockefeller owned coal mines.
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