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At least the robber-barons a century ago had the good taste to pretend to be virtuous by building libraries and starting foundations for the public good. These guys have not a bone in their bodies that tells them to do anything other than acquire more.
I think you’re giving too much credit to the robber barons of old. They also were exploitive and considered themselves above the law, perhaps even more than today. Those virtues tended to be after the fact, when they start feeling their mortality, caring about what legacy they leave behind .
Take Bill Gates as a better comparison to robber barons of old . You may be too young to understand just how bad a reputation he had, he could be as cut throat as anyone, and most of his good deeds have been since retirement. Don’t get me wrong, Bill Gates has turned into quite a force for good, but he wasn’t when he ran Microsoft
I watched the docu (series?) about him a handful of years ago. It made me like him. Then he argued against open-sourcing the covid vax and I've hated him ever since.
I was a die-hard Mac user in the 90s. I hated him then, but I was too young to know much about his business ruthlessness. I did know "embrace, extend, extinguish" in the 2000s. IE completely halted development of the web for a long time. Firefox shook things up. Chrome is the new IE. Le sigh…
I'm not sure I believe this bone theory of yours but it warrants further consideration imo. We should examine their bones more closely in an effort to discover this supposed defect.