I have seen this series before and it is a good one. I had heard about the Robber Barons, and this show explains what they did to the working man.

D word than they don't have to face it.

entitled the Series "The Men Who Built America on the Backs of the Workers". The section on the mines in NE MN and the big boys who got rich was very interesting to me because I live in this area and knew many people who either worked to build the Union or got screwed in one way or the other by the Barons. Rockefeller pushed one branch of my family out of the railroad business.

The workers then fought back and built the Union. We need to rebuild it around the jobs we have now and protect the middle class. Or we are going to be that third world country who used to lead the world.

It is also interesting that the robber barons are still with us. The names were so familiar.

And I hope that multiple murderer Henry Frick is burning in the lowest circle of hell right now. But I digress. Yes, the similarities between now and then are scary. Did your daughter notice too?

guess she has learned the same thing from her newsletters.

Not my own words, of course. But very wise words indeed.

and I have Download Helper.

Ta Daaaaaaaa............

...the Barons then actually built something and employed labor....whereas now....its Barons manipulating the "markets". You could argue its worse now....in the past they could rally against someone. Now....how do you fight against faceless shareholders...of which you might be a part of with your 401k? Feel screwed yet?

of the robber barons? We do not know them, they do not have any rules they live by, they reject any type of authority higher than themselves and we are late to their game because we trusted them enough to not see what was happening.

Much worse today.

I have no idea how close to fact MWBA is, but with the exception of J.P Morgan, all the others started out in poverty and amassed their wealth through their own ingenuity and hard work.

And to their credit, a few became generous philanthropists later in life.

I'm not saying that they were never greedy, power hungry assholes, but they're a far cry from the .001% we have now a days.