We are most definitively in a new robber baron era.
Not directed at the OP...
Once in America we celebrated, looked up to entrepreneurs that started businesses in their garage and grew those businesses into multibillion dollar firms that employ tens of thousands of people. Those entrepreneurs were seen as deserving their retirement lifestyles as something everyone aspired to... Not so much now, I guess. The Left has done a fine job. Even FReepers seem caught up in it.
Does the name Shawn Ryan ring a bell? He does a podcast called the Shawn Ryan Show. He’s a former SEAL and actually does a great job talking and interviewing his guests, ie...he asks a question and lets them talk. Little if any interruptions. Videos are available on youtube.
Anywho....he had on Robby Starbuck. Ran for a House seat somewhere around Nashville. Tenn GOP lined up against him and changed a law so he and some woman couldn’t run. They said he was a liberal in disguise, carpet-bagger type from California. Don’t know. Whatever.
However, he brings up Bezos and Amazon and talks about how it was able to become what it is today. At the end of his talk of Bezos, he spells out how Bezos and Amazon violated federal laws and Amazon should have been taken down, for all the damage it has done to small businesses, etc. I’m not an MBA or anything else and I’m sure there is probably more than one person on here that can decipher what he says and if it make sense.
Robby Starbuck - Congressional Candidate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp-wE2FrxvA go to the 33min mark..