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Originally Posted by Robbie
Elaborate on what you're saying. 
"Criminal acts" is pretty broad. Since those days, the govt. has also made damn near EVERYTHING a "criminal act" lol
We aren't "allowed" by law to get high. Or to give a girl money to have sex. Or to get in our car without wearing a seat belt. Etc., etc.
So just for a good GFY history lesson...go through and pick out every bad thing that Rockefeller ever did.
I was just shocked to find out that he gave away over half of his fortune to charities. He probably did more "good" than 100 million people combined. But I guess that's overlooked today.
I had no idea he had given that much money to help people.
I'm like you and was raised being taught how "evil" he was.
That's the two things that caught me by surprise.
1) How horribly devalued the Federal Govt. has made our money.
2) That Rockefeller gave more money to people than anybody on Earth ever did before or since. |
sorry but i wont go through a history lesson on why rockefellers business practices were outlawed. those answers are publicly available to anyone who wants to find them.
a lot of life is about perspective. is john rockefeller a good man for being so philanthropic, or is he a bad man for the methods he employed to make it. Much like todays political divide, ones opinion is formed in part by the type of information one is sympathetic to.
i believe in the last line from the movie Lord of War. Evil wins. the strong prey on the weak. murderers become leaders. women get raped. Life is unfair. The rule of law is mans attempt to curb the power of being bad so that there is some semblance of justice, equal protection under the law, equal opportunity for all, etc.
This is why rockefellers business methods were outlawed, so that other people cannot do what he did.