Friday, November 16, 2012

Excellent Show on History Channel

For those who haven't seen "The Men Who Built America" on the history channel it's an excellent show.  It follows the lives of  John Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan.  Granted these men helped build America into a world leader, however, the ways they did it were not admirable in most cases and led to many of the work laws we have today. Based on the way the show was done the only person that seemed to care about the common people was Ford.  However as they got older eventually Carnegie and Rockefeller gave away considerable sums of their wealth to charity so in my view that helped balance out some of their actions when they were younger.   What is amazing is that Rockefeller's wealth at one point was over 600 Billion Dollars based on today's dollar.   

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