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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts
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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (3184)6/15/2015 11:48:31 AM
From: Kirk ©   of 26758
 
I am not sure I understand the disagreement, perhaps it is a carryover from arguments on other forums. But you are both valuable here and I welcome the discussion.

I'm pretty sure the far left thinks anyone not crewing rubber Greenpeace boats or occupying Wall Street or just Oakland, is a "robber baron" but I believe many who used the system to their advantage "saw the light" and atoned for it in some way later.

Bill Gates was deemed to have used his monopoly powers to amass great wealth illegally but his foundation now is giving most of it back to worthy causes that only the far right seems to hate since a big part of what he is doing is protecting reproductive rights for poor women. From what I can tell, the far left doesn't have "robber baron issues" with him these days yet he was CLEARLY the biggest of my generation.

Stanford university was named for the son of a famous robber baron and I think the University has done a TON of good for society from educating and mentoring the founders of HP to the founders of Google...

Carnegie seems to have taken a page from the Stanford book and "copied" Stanford a generation later.
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