I feel like we should be using the term \u201crobber baron\u201d more. From Wikipedia:<\/p>
\u201cBy the late 19th century, the term was typically applied to businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth. Those practices included unfettered consumption and destruction of natural resources, influencing high levels of government, wage slavery, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors to create monopolies and\/or trusts that control the market, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors.\u201d<\/p>
That sounds like some people I know\u2026<\/p>
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