The tech billionaires didn't make their money by founding public institutions; indeed,some of them look more like thenew
robber barons.
It is obvious the ordinary population is disenchanted with the increasing numbers of politicians and levels of government and the tendency to act like medieval
robber barons.
An Objectivist society would be a cold, vicious place, very much like our own during the age of the
Robber Barons.
Big suits and
robber barons of the post-beat era watched as Ed Templeton, Aaron Rose Raymond Pettibone, Carlo McCormick, and Ryan McGinley were match-missed with Brian Eno, Kim Gordon, Jeff Tremaine, Asia Argento and Nan Goldin.
We are fortunate to have the likes of Morris, who isn't looking for anything from the big studs, who should be operating a fair system, instead of behaving like
robber barons.
By taking historic walking tours we learn about the Spanish influence, the Gold Rush in 1849, the home of some of the ruthless
robber barons, and the influence of writers, artists and jazz musicians.
Stanley Park (its northern counterpart) has to suffer a great deal of pillaging before relying upon the modern day equivalent of
robber barons to restore what remains of a once great park.
A recent World Bank-funded report concluded that the
robber barons are still "as active as they ever were" and they are "not only free to roam, but are in fact encouraged to do so by persons whose proper role is to exercise control over them.
But today, the foundations of
robber barons and modern corporations are moving beyond charitable support for tony cultural events and educational endowments, and toward more gauzy displays.
Still, Enron stands as the signature scandal of the new economy, reinforcing the notion that, for all the progress made since the
robber barons of the late 1800s, fair and open markets remain more an ideal than a reality.
Declining oil prices won't change the situation except, perhaps, to make its
robber barons a little less rich.
But in these geopolitical parables the international
robber barons get their comeuppance and watching them get their just deserts is wicked fun.
At least according to these self-generated press clippings, the
Robber Barons 2.
He has created--or rather, re-created--a series of sixty-five black-and-white 'vintage" photographs from Clayton, Henry Clay Frick's Pittsburgh estate, now a museum that preserves the nineteenth-century Industrialist's home as it existed when
robber barons roamed the earth.
The long-term hope for Indonesia involves yesterday's
Robber Barons deciding to become tomorrow's pillars of society and supporting the institutional overhaul required to return Indonesia to a sustainable development path.
