1855 United States Tycoon

"That should be the case. In the current situation, although the split will cause us a little inconvenience in operation, it will not destroy our actual control of the market. In a sense, our control of the market It has also become more flexible." Gray Stone said, "Moreover, if there are new technology innovations and new markets, there will also be new competitors with technological advantages in this area. There is this bill in , He will not be able to monopolize the entire new market and expand to other markets on this basis. He must accept the kind help of MacDonald or others. This is indeed a very good thing. Mom, you Say, do I make sense?"

"Not bad." Dorothea nodded in satisfaction, "Go and see your father again, and talk to him again."

"Okay, mother." Grey Stone nodded.

...

"Child, apart from what you said, there is another reason why MacDonald and I support this bill." Morgan said to his own son, "You know, MacDonald has a much better reputation than me. Because He is much more hypocritical than I am. But over the years, although he has been playing with some benevolent things to smear himself, he still has a big weakness in maintaining a good reputation. That is, his banner There are many production-type enterprises that directly employ a large number of workers. Many years ago, his business scope was not as large as it is now. Because of the technological advantages, his enterprises have very high profit margins, which makes him It can raise the wages of workers, and at the same time promote the eight-hour work system as a means to combat competitors. But as his scale expands, his income is of course more and more, but the overall profit margin But it has dropped. And decent competitors have also been suppressed. He no longer needs and can no longer maintain high wages. Therefore, although MacDonald has not directly and greatly reduced wages over the years The ratio of wages to profits has been reduced through various ways of improving production efficiency without increasing wages. Even in many cases, wages will be lowered through economic crises.

MacDonald once said a very interesting thing, that is, there is no class that renounces its own interests. The same goes for workers. Over time, although MacDonald is still selling his stuff? "Morgan asked suddenly.

"It's chicken soup for the soul." Little Morgan replied from the side.

"That's right, it's this stuff. Did you know that Scrooge once again joked with me. He said that a reporter went to interview a rich man and asked him: "Do you think money is the most important thing in life?" 'The rich man replied:'My motto has always been income is the least important, and the important thing is how much you contribute.' The reporter was taken aback and asked:'Then sir, you made a fortune by doing this. Is it?” The rich man replied: “No, I made my fortune after I convinced my employees.” Scrooge has actually been using similar methods to fool his employees and brainwash them. But There is no class that abandons their own interests. These methods cannot be said to be useless, but the effect is indeed limited, and more and more people will see through this kind of tricks. So although Scrooge’s tricks of pretending to be good He was very skilled, but he couldn’t pretend more and more. And you know how important it is to Scrooge to wear lambskin, and relying on this, he doesn’t know how much he made. So Scrooge is not. Throw away the lambskin. With this trick, he can hide further behind the scenes, and even once he hides behind, the companies he actually controls can immediately turn around, without having to consider MacDonald’s reputation. How did the money come? Anyway, those companies are no longer under the control of Scrooge. This guy is really an exquisite hypocrite, admirable."

Indeed, as Morgan said, although Scrooge pretended to be a philanthropist everywhere, and put all kinds of spiritual chicken soup full of humanity, but these things can not deceive others forever, even if most of the media are It's useless to stand on his side.

This is like the super-rich man in the Pearl City of later generations. Although it is also "good for fun", although it often releases spiritual chicken soup such as "you can make ten dollars and only make five dollars". And by relying on these tricks, he once became the idol of the city and the hero of the city. But although he is so good at packaging himself, although almost all the media in this city are singing praises to him, and helping him fool the stupid people that it is foreign tourists who have harmed them. But the question of where the money goes is not deceiving. When the economy of the entire Pearl City is getting worse and worse, and the people's pockets are getting more and more flattened, his wealth is inflated like a balloon and cannot be deceived. As a result, even those silly ass gradually felt that this superman was not a good thing, and that Pearl City had fallen to this day, largely thanks to him. Of course, at this time, he has made enough money, and he can completely pack the money and go to other places where he can make money.

However, Scrooge could not leave United States. In the foreseeable time, for capitalists, no place has more potential and more money than United States. Therefore, in order not to become a public enemy of the whole people, he completely retreated behind the scenes and became a thorough philanthropist.

In history, Rockefeller used to use armored vehicles and machine guns to shoot strikers at the time, so that his reputation was once worse than that of Satan. But since Standard Oil was split, his personal assets not only expanded several times, but also he was able to wash his hands with a golden basin, focusing on being a "philanthropist", and finally became a noble, pure, and beneficial People and people in society, to this day, many people still regard him as a moral example. Although the oil companies that were spun off after the standard split have done many good things like suppressing workers and provoking wars everywhere. But after all, this is no longer under the direct command of Rockefeller, so "the blood of this man is shed", and naturally "it is not my sin."

"Moreover, after the death of President McKinley last time, many people secretly said that President McKinley died because he offended Wall Street. Although no media would support such baseless rumors. Dad, you also know that people are born to believe in rumors, especially those that seem to be rigorous. So if President Roosevelt can smoothly implement the bill that seems to hit the big consortium this time, it will be unscathed. Naturally, the rumors of the United States will not be broken. Not only this rumor is not broken. There are more rumors in the past, such as those promoted by socialists, that the United States government is just the spokesperson of Wall Street’s big capital. People believe it." Little Morgan nodded and said.

"Well, that's right, son!" Morgan was very happy. "When I was your age, I didn't understand these things as deeply as you. It's really good! If I had your current understanding back then, maybe now ours The assets will not be much less than that of Scrooge."

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When President Roosevelt disclosed his draft of the "Anti-Monopoly Bill" to be submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives for deliberation, the entire United States society was almost stunned. Then various newspapers immediately started a big discussion around this matter.

The left-wing newspapers almost unanimously applauded President Roosevelt, praising him for withstanding the pressure of Wall Street capital and safeguarding the interests of the majority of the people of United States; while the right-wing newspapers focused on discussing whether Roosevelt’s approach violated. The principle of economic freedom.

Even Scrooge stepped forward. He first expressed his grievances and declared that his own monopoly status was obtained through not only legal, but also reasonable and reasonable methods. He has never caused harm to the economic development of United States. But Scrooge also said that he can understand everyone's concerns.

"I know that the economic power in my hands is indeed enough for me to use it to disrupt free competition. This is a fact, although I have never used this power in this way. But this worry is not completely unreasonable. Just like As the great Liberator General Saint Martin said, the existence of a general with a sword with too great achievements in the political arena, no matter what his position is, he himself will become a threat to democracy. So General Saint Martin is willing Retire. The same is true for me. If Congress’s vote shows that my existence in the economic world makes everyone worry and threatens the free market, I am willing to imitate the sages. And, to be honest, there are other things that are more important than doing business. Let me love."

Scrooge's enlightened attitude has naturally been praised unanimously. Although there are voices saying that Scrooge is just pretending, most of the media still behave very rationally and peacefully. Those overly radical remarks naturally have little persuasiveness in such a comparison.

Morgan naturally wouldn’t allow Scrooge to act alone. He also stood up and said that although he didn’t like this bill, United States is a democratic country and respecting the wishes of the people of United States is the United States. The foundation of a great country. So if the people of United States decide to support this bill, of course he will abide by it. Although he thinks this bill is stupid.

A reporter also asked Scrooge and Morgan the same question: "If this bill is passed, will you transfer your own wealth from United States?"

Regarding this question, both Scrooge and Morgan replied firmly: "Amei, you see it is my homeland. At any time, I will never leave her and betray her."

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