Comments by "Uncle Dave" (@UncaDave) on "Chicago's South Side Nightmare - The Rise and Fall of Pullman's Utopia" video.

A robber baron is still a robber baron. Most in our industrial history created some kind of order and stability in their particular business but as with any centralized organization of profit and power they were all guilty of one economic and human abuse or another. Reform began with a good head of steam with Teddy Roosevelt and continued later with FDR. The struggle between the two forces inevitably leads to abuses on both sides. The super wealthy billionaires we have now should be looking over their shoulders. Amazon workers want to unionize, and so it goes on. However this time the wealthy elite are a bit more shrewd. People like Bezos make a big mistake when they start building their huge yachts. The smart guys like Warren Buffet still live in their original homes. It’s an interesting story, yet unfinished.
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