History of Standard OilIda Minerva Tarbell
History of Standard Oil
by Ida Minerva Tarbell · first published 1984
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…Stone (active 1950s -- 1970s), or George Seldes (1930s -- 1960s, lived to 1995). Earlier muckrakers included Upton Sinclair (The Jungle and It Can't Happen Here, 1910s -- 1950s), Ida M. Tarbell (The History of Standard Oil, 1890s -- 1920s), and Lincoln Steffans and Ray Stannard Baker (both late 19th century / early 20th). There's a phenomenal interview with Stone from 1974 on ... Public Television's ... "Day at Night"…
on “The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”” ↗If you actually look at the history of Standard Oil (including the exposé by Ida Tarbell which arguably depicts the strongest case for the existence of a monopoly), you will notice that Standard Oil's market share was already on the decline by the time…
on “South Korea is stuck with Internet Explorer for online shopping” ↗> The difference between modern tech giants and erstwhile powerful companies like standard oil is that tech giants are much closer to people's daily lives That's incorrect. Read the history of Standard Oil. They aggressively sought to get into people's daily lives. In fact, they may have been the first massive corporation to ever do so at an all-encompassing national level. They leveraged every bit of their…
on “Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats” ↗…predates Microsoft by well over a hundred years in the corporate sphere just in the US. They're not remotely close to being the dirtiest at it historically. If anyone doesn't understand that, go read the history of Standard Oil, US Steel, GM & Ford, or a dozen other giants that have ruled the US economic landscape at one time or another. Walmart has competed as dirty as anything Microsoft has ever done, the same goes for Amazon,…
on “AARD Code, or how Bill Gates finished off the competition” ↗> Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to? Perhaps we should all go and (re-)read the history of Standard Oil just to refresh our memories of what it looks like if we were to let that happen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil_Co._of_New_Jersey... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successors_of_Standard_Oil
on “Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals” ↗After having read the history of Standard Oil, any time I see the word "rebate" I now think something shady is definitely going on.
on “Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation” ↗Nonsense. See Afforess's comment above. Read the history of Standard Oil.
on “One reason cable companies won’t willingly compete against each other” ↗