The founding fathers of enterprise lived by a simple maxim: crush the little guy. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and their ilk may have built the modern industrial age but they did it on the carcasses of a million small business owners. Rockefeller is probably the best known for his ruthless assault on entrepreneurs in a campaign that included buying up all the chemicals they needed to refine their oil, buying up all the barrels so they had nowhere to store their oil, and offering his oil to the market at next-to-nothing until he literally bankrupted anyone who stood in his way.
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