![]() ![]() No wonder that in this most capitalist of nations, our leading capitalists usually garner as much suspicion as love.Ĭornelius Vanderbilt spent little of his long life fretting over his image. ![]() Some of the corporate rich then try to enhance their reputations with ostentatious philanthropy. Tycoons get blamed for making the marketplace less free, for corrupting politicians, for exploiting the ordinary folk who work in their companies. Yet we assume that anyone so big must also be bad. We marvel at their cleverness and daring - and envy the manifold pleasures they buy and discard at whim. ![]() Americans have always been ambivalent about men who turn small businesses into gigantic ones. ![]()
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