Since 1890, GOP fought for corps over #WeThePeople - the original #RobberBarons who caused the crash of 1929 & attempted #insurrection agnst FDR when he tried to help us. They've ALWAYS BEEN traitors! After 1968, they were joined by ex-slavers of the South or #MAGA! That's the history in a nutshell

Andrew Carnegie's biggest mistake when he wrote "Gospel of Wealth" in 1889 and invented the concept of "trickle-down:" It actually gave #RobberBarons permission to boom in wealth while only "trickling" the smallest bits on the poor.. for tax breaks! They lost NOTHING!

@aral

#RobberBarons #Hypercapitalism

@_L1vY_ @packbawky Wealth has become so concentrated among heirs of vast fortunes normal humanity has been made invisible. They don’t know us, they never even see us. #extremewealth #skydwellers #PrivateJets #wealth #taxtherich #inequality #piracy #robberbarons #wagetheft #labor #capitalism

#RobberBarons I believe that we’ve returned to the era of robber barons. Big corporations like Oil, Big Tech, and certainly Railroads, such as Norfolk Southern have raked in huge profits at the expense of the consumer and the environment. The Republican Party has promoted this travesty by deregulation and tax breaks. The audacity of Trump accusing the Biden administration of responsibility is laughable. He threw out Obama’s safety regulations. Gov Shapiro made a criminal referral bc of the RR.

#RobberBarons It’s clear that we’ve returned to an era of corporate robber barons. Huge profits of oil companies, railroads disregarding safety rules for profit and the meat packing industry’s use of migrant children workers are only a fraction of examples that should be the call for immediate government intervention. With lobbyists having a strangle hold in Washington, I’m not optimistic. I am proud of Governor Shapiro who filed criminal charges for the train derailment. We need more like him

2/2 #ChatGPT and #OpenAI pretend to be the work of genius coders in Silicon Valley but in fact rely on the hyper-exploitaion and traumatization of a bunch of people in Kenya. Hmm... Remind anyone of anything? I guess if modern #capitalism was built by #slavetrade I guess it makes sense that the new #siliconvalley is built by an analogue. Only surprised that #apartheid baby Musk didn't get there first. (H/t to JPD for framing it in these terms.) Meet the new #robberbarons same as the old ones.

" '#BadMexicans'— that’s what the revolutionaries of 1910 were called as they fought on both sides of the US-#Mexico border against the #RobberBarons and their political allies. UCLA historian #KellyLytleHernández tells that story and talks about her book on race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands."

#MexicanRevolution #RicardoFloresMagón #Magonistas #USImperialism #books #MexicanAmericans

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/politics/elie-mystal-kelly-lytle-hernandez/

https://twitter.com/BradSmi/status/1598813031990906881?t=SqJCAiO6KJL8PwkVtvgMuQ&s=19

^LISTEN.
Where is SN?
Talking glowingly about the #IndustrialRevolution & eagerly scouring horizons for the next.

All fairness: it's why he has that job, ofc, to be always ahead.
And realistically, he's asked to do it more unflinchingly than the next 50 white guys gunning for his job. (Is Brad on the same page? Frankly, Idk.)

But you cant wax poetic about "#Empowerment" in the same room w the still-warm breath that just gilded #RobberBarons.

If a #strike causes major disruption, that's not the fault of #labor.

Don't blame the #workers who want to have sick days during a #pandemic -- blame the #capitalists who decide that slightly more obscene profit is more important than the lives and livelihoods of our #EssentialWorkers . Blame the #RobberBarons who are willing to risk all of us in a radically unequal game of chicken.

This isn't on #labor. Support the #RailStrike and the #unions .

@TinaThePerson Those companies are inhumane and #RobberBarons. Maybe the workers should start peeing in litter boxes and then leaving them at their bosses doors? Using CHEAP litter too.

@WilliamRobert @davetroy Wow that is my JAM right there. When can I come on and talk about #Mazdaznan, the #NXIVM-like sun worshipping cult from the turn of the 20th century that flared into wild prominence with the wealth of #robberbarons, rode the wave of #Eugenics, influenced #Bauhaus AND the American #extreme #rightwing, and now has been totally forgotten?

‘Altruism built on avarice is simply a comfort blanket for billionaires.’
Text by Ian Birrell in Unherd
About the justifying #Philosophie of the #RobberBarons of our time.
#EffectiveAltruism #Longtermism
https://unherd.com/2022/11/the-evils-of-elitist-altruism/