Rockefeller

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of the great trust that was formed. showed little mercy in his business dealings. He believe primitive savagery prevailed in the jungle world of business, where only the fittest survived or as you taught us (Social Darwinism) :-). Anyway, he pursued the policy of "ruin or rule." His oil monopoly did turn out a superior product at a relatively cheap price.
's philanthropies, amounting to some $500 million dollars. He founded things such as the Institute for Medical Research, and the Univ. of Chicago. His vast resources built up the National City Bank of New York. Basically he contributed quite a lot to American society so lets leave it at that.
To sum this all up created extremely successful companies, he used unscrupulous (or in our uneducated tongue "corrupt") methods in some aspect of his corporation building to get to the top. The success of the Standard Oil Company and U.S. Steel was credited to the fact that their owners ran them with great authority. In this ...

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