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2016 Postmortem

SoLeftIAmRight

(4,883 posts) Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:39 PM Feb 2016

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”

Jason "Jay" Gould was a leading American railroad developer and speculator. He was long vilified as an archetypal robber baron, whose success at business made him the ninth richest U.S. citizen in history.

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“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” (Original Post) SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 OP

Today they'd put him on the cover of Forbes hifiguy Feb 2016 #1

+1 Skwmom Feb 2016 #2

keeping people poor and/or UglyGreed Feb 2016 #3

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

1. Today they'd put him on the cover of Forbes

Reply to SoLeftIAmRight (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:43 PM

Feb 2016

with that quote. Todays robber barons must look at him like a god.

Skwmom

(12,685 posts)

2. +1

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:50 PM

Feb 2016

UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)

3. keeping people poor and/or

Reply to SoLeftIAmRight (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:53 PM

Feb 2016

worried about their jobs helps promote that way of thinking. Desperate people will do desperate things just to survive and the fat cats love every minute of it.

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