It pains me as someone who values knowledge that I probably have to explain the term ‘Robber Baron’.
What is a ‘Robber Baron’?
“Robber baron” is term used to describe America’s most successful industrialists. This derogative term was primarily used during the era of the late 19th century often known as the Gilded Age.
The term robber baron is also sometimes used to describe any successful businessperson whose practices are considered unethical or unscrupulous. This behavior can include employee or environmental abuse, stock market manipulation, or deliberately restricting output to charge higher prices.
The original “robber barons” were feudal lords who robbed travelers and ships passing through their territory. During the 1800s, the term was applied to successful capitalists like Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John Rockefeller, who used monopolistic business practices to corner entire industries and extract great wealth from workers and consumers.
These ‘people’ were brought into line in this country by regulations that prevented them from raping the nation and its people.
I resurrect the term here because of something Elmo the Parasite stated recently….
Even before Donald Trump took office, his major bankroller Elon Musk was publicly pledging to use his new power in the federal government to gut its existing efforts to regulate private industry.
Weeks into the Trump administration, Musk has mostly made headlines for an assault on federal workers and payments. But regulation may not be far behind: during a late-night public chat this week, the world’s richest man said it’s time to get rid of all existing regulations.
“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” the head of the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency said on the call, as spotted by HuffPost. “Not default there, default gone.”
“If it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in,” he suggested. “These regulations are added willy-nilly all the time. So we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation and get the government off the backs of everyday Americans so people can get things done.”
It’s unclear what Musk thinks will happen if regulations are rolled back, especially considering the intensity of the shockwaves after all the drama at USAID and beyond. (Many acts of deregulation would also benefit him personally at his business ventures, ranging from Tesla to SpaceX.)
Regulations, after all, provide Americans with an incredible number of protections — from workplace safety to rules against companies polluting to making it so manufacturers can’t sell goods that are poisonous or dangerous.
Musk’s counterpoint: muh freedoms, essentially.
“If the government has millions of regulations holding everyone back, well, it’s not freedom,” Musk said during the call. “We’ve got to restore freedom.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-eliminate-regulations
Apparently this beast longs for the days when the rich could do everything they want and have no control devices in place.
Elmo wants to stab the people of this country in back and make financial rape of their lives all the more easy.
The very people that fell for the lame promises are going to be the ones that are humped the hardest and watch their families suffer at the hands of these despicable pricks.
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