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Rockefeller and His Benefit to the Economy

The Glory of American Individualism

By Howard Roark, published Sep 18, 2007
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John D. Rockefeller was born in Richfield, New York July 8th 1839. Rockefeller was not born into a wealthy family; his father was a traveling medical salesman of "miracle" cures for afflictions such as cancer. Rockefeller was later taken out of school in 1855 at the age of sixteen because of scandalous behavior of his father. Due to this behavior his father had several illegitimate children which caused obvious discontent in his family. The very year Rockefeller dropped out of school he acquired his very first job of being a bookkeeper on the day of September 26th, a day which meant so much to him that he celebrated it every year for the remainder of his life (McGill, 1). Rockefeller took his work very seriously and worked very hard at his job and received only 50 cents a day for his work. This rigorous work ethic will later shape not only the life of John D. Rockefeller but will revolutionize and invigorate the world wide economy by increasing the purchasing power of individuals in nearly every market he touched.

Rockefeller and His Benefit to the Economy

John D. Rockefeller

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so your idea of freedom is the looting of private property by the masses? Your idea of freedom is the absence of individual rights? If there is anything immoral, it is the seizure of one's personal property by people who do not have the wisdom, or the right to do so. If you believe expanding a company by means purely of mutual agreement between consenting adults is immoral, and that the seizure of ones property by beaurocrats is in deed a moral good, then to put it simply, your just retarded.

Posted on 11/18/2007 at 11:11:00 PM

 
*h of the dream. And we have him to thank for the Federal Reserve. What a wonderful guy, eh?

Posted on 11/17/2007 at 6:11:00 PM

 
Individualism is fine when it's not unscrupulous and immoral. Horizontal integration is NOT moral. If Rockefeller invented and defines the American Dream, we're in trouble. Life is about giving, not getting. To believe that the meaning of life is getting things is absolute insanity. To see what you own as the most important reflection and extension of yourself is absurd. The unscrupulous nature of the American Dream is at the core of its corruption because it disregards all that is truly important: truth, morals, selflessness, and integrity. The American Dream is one of opportunity and freedom, created waaaay back when the Pilgrims sought religious freedom and landed here. The American Dream died when they took away the freedom and human rights of others in order for their own twisted sense of "freedom," namely the Native Americans. Rockefeller didn't invent the American Dream. He perverted it. He is one of the many examples of the corruptness that marks the deat

Posted on 11/17/2007 at 6:11:00 PM

 
Thanks for sharing

Posted on 09/25/2007 at 5:09:00 PM

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