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Originally Posted by 12clicks
your grandfather would be embarrassed by your support of ows.
for every protester begging for a handout, there's someone like your grandfather working his way to the top.
back in 1911 there was no income tax, no unemployment benefits, no welfare, standard oil was a bigger, more powerful monopoly than ANYTHING we have now, the list goes on and on yet you think today's beggars (uh, protesters) have it hard but your grandfather had a fair shake?
wow  |
and he didn't have to compete with giant multi-nationals... and saying that Standard Oil was a bigger monopoly that even half of the biggest multi-nationals is ignorant to say the least. In terms of market share... maybe... but it was a very different world then. By todays standards, Standard Oil was a small business. Now they do it with subsidiaries.