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The magazine excerpts likely portray oil barons like Rockefeller as disconnected from the common man by highlighting their extravagant lifestyles, exclusive social circles, and lack of involvement in addressing the struggles and concerns of everyday people. They may depict the barons as prioritizing their own wealth and status without showing empathy or understanding for the challenges faced by the average person.
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt
Robber Barons
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They were both very successful and wealthy robber barons.
Robber Barons is was what U.S. political and economic commentator Matthew Josephson called the economic princes (billionaires).
Business leaders such as John D. Rockefeller were called 'robber barons because he made huge profits by paying his workers low wages.
Andrew Carnegie was known as the "Steel King" and John D. Rockefeller was known as the "Oil King."
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This perception took power away from tycoons such as Rockefeller, and businesses lost a lot of money.
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leland Stanford
They were the richest men of their time and they controlled the oil, railroad, and banking of the nation. They lived like kings and paid their workers as little as they could. Carnegie came from Scotland with nothing, but through ruthless means he worked to become the richest. Rockefeller and Morgan were also ruthless in their dealings. This made them Robber barons stealing from the poor to make themselves richer. We have robber barons too with the 1% richest today.
No one "invented " robber barons because it was a term used to describe people like Rockefeller. They were the riches men and lived like kings.