Cornelius Vanderbilt: Hero (Pt 6 of 6)

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Cornelius Vanderbilt made transportation available to the poor by doing nothing but following his own rational self-interest and excelling at it.

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  • And so Beethoven's 7th's hour long special ends. Shit, that was informative. Thanks for making this...

  • Other than those complaints, *Myth of the Robber Barons* is one of my favorite books. I especially appreciate Folsom's citation of Robert Hessen, who is very meticulous when it comes to industrial history.

  • 1 of my few complaints about *Myth of the Robber Barons*, aside from Burton Folsom's bizarre presumption that Rockefeller's wealth was his reward for being so religious, is that Folsom believed the anti-capitalists' inaccurate accusations against financier Jay Gould. Folsom says Gould really was a tax-subsidized crook. But all of those accusations are disproved in Maury Klein's *The Life & Legend of Jay Gould*, which *Intellectual Activist* recommended, back when Peter Schwartz still owned it.

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