#robberbaron — Public Fediverse posts
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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
May 18, 2026
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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
May 18, 2026
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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
May 18, 2026
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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
May 18, 2026
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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
May 18, 2026
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100 years on and we are no different from the robber barons of the 1920s! It was oil and gas and mining and railroad wealth, now it is tech bros and developers. Corrupt to the core and disgustingly exploitative, inhumane and the epitome of excess.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/real-estate-titan-compares-tax-the-rich-slogan-to-racial-slurs-00907424 -
100 years on and we are no different from the robber barons of the 1920s! It was oil and gas and mining and railroad wealth, now it is tech bros and developers. Corrupt to the core and disgustingly exploitative, inhumane and the epitome of excess.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/real-estate-titan-compares-tax-the-rich-slogan-to-racial-slurs-00907424 -
100 years on and we are no different from the robber barons of the 1920s! It was oil and gas and mining and railroad wealth, now it is tech bros and developers. Corrupt to the core and disgustingly exploitative, inhumane and the epitome of excess.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/real-estate-titan-compares-tax-the-rich-slogan-to-racial-slurs-00907424 -
100 years on and we are no different from the robber barons of the 1920s! It was oil and gas and mining and railroad wealth, now it is tech bros and developers. Corrupt to the core and disgustingly exploitative, inhumane and the epitome of excess.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/real-estate-titan-compares-tax-the-rich-slogan-to-racial-slurs-00907424 -
100 years on and we are no different from the robber barons of the 1920s! It was oil and gas and mining and railroad wealth, now it is tech bros and developers. Corrupt to the core and disgustingly exploitative, inhumane and the epitome of excess.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/real-estate-titan-compares-tax-the-rich-slogan-to-racial-slurs-00907424 -
The return of the #RobberBaron
“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, and to create monopolies and/or trusts that control the market.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)
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#AmazonIsEvil
#JeffBezos
#RobberBaron
#GreedyBastard
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GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦 @grrlscientistdump amazon, order direct from the company itself
#AmazonIsEvil
#JeffBezos
#RobberBaron
#GreedyBastard
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Retoot for [email protected]
[email protected]
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦 @grrlscientistdump amazon, order direct from the company itself
#AmazonIsEvil
#JeffBezos
#RobberBaron
#GreedyBastard
#PredatoryCapitalism -
Retoot for [email protected]
[email protected]
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦 @grrlscientistdump amazon, order direct from the company itself
#AmazonIsEvil
#JeffBezos
#RobberBaron
#GreedyBastard
#PredatoryCapitalism -
Retoot for [email protected]
[email protected]
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦 @grrlscientistdump amazon, order direct from the company itself
#AmazonIsEvil
#JeffBezos
#RobberBaron
#GreedyBastard
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I feel like we should be using the term “robber baron” more. From Wikipedia:
“By 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.”
That sounds like some people I know…
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@SocraticEthics It's obviously a trap and #trump falls for it, as for all the other traps of the dictators. As a #robberbaron himself, he doesn't care anyway.
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@bibliolater @bookstodon
Anderson Cooper's Mother's family. Nice genealogy mapped out in his family's history. Also covers the ramifications of great wealth to those who inherit it. -
@peterjriley2024 "Gould, with his seventy millions, was one of the colossal failures of our time. He was a purely selfish man. His greed consumed his charity. He was like death and hell - gathering in all, giving back nothing. To build up an immense fortune for one's self by fraud is a disgrace to the age, a mockery to virtue, a menace to public welfare."
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Well, guess that’s it for #instagram for me then for the time being – until the #EU forces #meta to backpedal.
But hey, enough time to rake in „consent“ or money until then …
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CW: Long thread/4
Hey look at this
* How One #RobberBaron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His Bank and Plunged the U.S. Into the First Great Depression https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/robber-baron-gamble-railroads-brought-down-bank-plunged-us-into-first-great-depression-panic-1873-180982877/ (h/t @nancyproctor)
* #Crypto scam social science thoughts: The role of the elite news media and academia https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/09/13/crypto-scam-social-science-thoughts-the-role-of-the-elite-news-media-and-academia/
* Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a #Publisher https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781956763850/turning-pages/
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@chris thats too tame.
The 1900's folks coined "Robber Barons", aptly describing how their monopolists robbed the public sphere and became an untouchable class of their own.
Ours are doing the same, but on a larger and much more destructive planet-killing scale.
I vote something like "Grande Dacoits" or "Uber Dacoits"
#GrandeDacoits #UberDacoits #Billionaires #Billionaire #UltraRich #OnePercent #Elite #RobberBaron #RobberBarons #SuperRich #capitalistextremists
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CW: Long thread/10
There have been lots of other abusive "platform" businesses in the past - famously, 19th century railroads and their #RobberBaron owners were so obnoxiously abusive that they spawned the #trustbusting movement, the #ShermanAct, and modern competition law. Did the rail barons do enshittification, too?
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How could the collapse of our #healthCare system possibly be due to decades of #robberBaron #politicians filling their boots! WE HAVE LAZY DOCTORS!
"If every doctor in our province took two or three more patients a week, we wouldn't have a backlog," Blaine Higgs
#vote #healthCareCrisis #blaineHiggs #cdnpoli #nbpoli #noPrivateHealthCare #noPrivatePrisons #nobillionaires
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Can't state the reason but does anyone know a famous fictional #RobberBaron or evil powerful #mystic from #gilded age #literature? Maybe from 1900-1920 even. -
@Nadinabbott @Jallaj1 I read the article by Umair Haque, one of my favourite authors, and #ideology seems to always win. What is needed is another #Dicken's who can show, via stories, that the #Emperor is dressed in #RobberBaron clothes.
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@Nadinabbott @Jallaj1 I read the article by Umair Haque, one of my favourite authors, and #ideology seems to always win. What is needed is another #Dicken's who can show, via stories, that the #Emperor is dressed in #RobberBaron clothes.
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@Nadinabbott @Jallaj1 I read the article by Umair Haque, one of my favourite authors, and #ideology seems to always win. What is needed is another #Dicken's who can show, via stories, that the #Emperor is dressed in #RobberBaron clothes.
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@Nadinabbott @Jallaj1 I read the article by Umair Haque, one of my favourite authors, and #ideology seems to always win. What is needed is another #Dicken's who can show, via stories, that the #Emperor is dressed in #RobberBaron clothes.
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@Nadinabbott @Jallaj1 I read the article by Umair Haque, one of my favourite authors, and #ideology seems to always win. What is needed is another #Dicken's who can show, via stories, that the #Emperor is dressed in #RobberBaron clothes.
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@andrewmarkbaker @thanetric @KeirStarmer
fair point - I guess after 4 lost elections I tend to err on the side of not frightening the horses - I suspect I am not alone
It would help if #starmer & co clearly communicated their focus (if not, prior to a #manifesto, actual policies) & how it takes us forward where the #kipperTories cannot. I think #regionalDevolution needs to be expanded on & contrasted with #sunaks #robberBaron #freeports
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@andrewmarkbaker @thanetric @KeirStarmer
fair point - I guess after 4 lost elections I tend to err on the side of not frightening the horses - I suspect I am not alone
It would help if #starmer & co clearly communicated their focus (if not, prior to a #manifesto, actual policies) & how it takes us forward where the #kipperTories cannot. I think #regionalDevolution needs to be expanded on & contrasted with #sunaks #robberBaron #freeports
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@andrewmarkbaker @thanetric @KeirStarmer
fair point - I guess after 4 lost elections I tend to err on the side of not frightening the horses - I suspect I am not alone
It would help if #starmer & co clearly communicated their focus (if not, prior to a #manifesto, actual policies) & how it takes us forward where the #kipperTories cannot. I think #regionalDevolution needs to be expanded on & contrasted with #sunaks #robberBaron #freeports
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@andrewmarkbaker @thanetric @KeirStarmer
fair point - I guess after 4 lost elections I tend to err on the side of not frightening the horses - I suspect I am not alone
It would help if #starmer & co clearly communicated their focus (if not, prior to a #manifesto, actual policies) & how it takes us forward where the #kipperTories cannot. I think #regionalDevolution needs to be expanded on & contrasted with #sunaks #robberBaron #freeports
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If you can't #patent a #service, then…
…then…
…then…
…then…
DID YOU KNOW #BigTech are the modern day #mafia, modern-day #robberBaron, modern-day #pirates and #slaveOwners?
So what to do?
