Seems to me that they where just trying to kill any competitors while they where small.
The only thing a capitalist hates more than a communist is a competitor.
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Not exactly accurate.
It's merely unfettered capitalist otherwise known as Capitalist Pigs that hates a competitor.
And exactly why this is the 2nd Gilded Age of Fraud & Greed - Gone Insane.
But yes: J Paul Getty believed that competition was a Sin. Standard Oil Empire was finally broken apart after he ruined many a business competitor.
Bill Gates allegedly did much the same things to many a tech competitor as well.
As have many other Business giants.
All to the severe harm of our current mess and standards of living.
Of course the short term is: Pig.
And then they think they can buy their way into Heavens Gates by giving much away before.after they die.
Say hello to the Big Devil Bill, and J. Paul is waiting to welcome you! That is if those stories are true.
It's the same for Big Oil, Big Auto, and Big Everything else these days. And why so many are unemployed, or under-employed or making peanuts. It's tough to survive any real small business, or even start-up most small enterprises without lot's of Capital, and even then half fail within 2 years time.
Welcome to Bankster/Corporate Fascism.
Where the Big Queens Bailout themselves and send everyone else the bills.
Where they Socialize all their losses and Privatize all their Bailouts.
And then have the nerve to call this "socialism" after 15.3 Trillion in FED bailouts, backstops and Guarantees. And that doesn't count risk free trillions for merely parking Bank deposits at the FED that were loaned to them at next to nothing interest rates.
Yea, yea, Capitalism, Wrong.
We used to toss the crooks in Jail for a long time. Seize their Banks, Put them in Receivership, Straighten out the messes, liquidate their assets, pay off the debts, and move forward.
Now were back to the 2nd Gilded Age because of dumbed down stupid programmed obedient worker slaves too dumb to know their getting butt fucked from cradle to grave. Oops their goes your health care coverage, oops there goes your pension just before you retire. Oops there went your IRA and 401k Nationalized to pay government debts. Oops...there went your tech jobs to China, India, Malaysia, or anywhere Bill Gates, Apple, Google, etc. can find them.
Capitalism...long since dead and buried.
You young one's will never know how great the 1950's through the early 1970's really were. When the top tax rate for zillionaires was 90+%. Suckers...
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