Robber Barons During The Gilded Age

During the Gilded age we see the second industrial revolution which provides new jobs new inventions and new ways of working. The new way of working is good from a business leaders aspect because it was acceptable to underpay and overwork. With all the new immigrants you have an abundance of workers to do this to. By business leaders doing this they started to produce immense amounts of money and this is why you see the first millionaires during this time period. Not only did they underpay and overwork they kept all their money in their upper class by making trust, financing things that the the elite could only afford, and making the immoral decision to underpay workers. While Carnegie and others tried to become philanthropist their money only went to things that most people wouldn't use until now. So, I say yes this period was ruled by robber barons who continually kicked the poor while they were down then
By participating in practices such as pooling Vanderbilt was able to effectively control the prices of the railroad and get this most money and pay the workers less. Vanderbilt was a greedy man and tried to defend his greed by saying that competition was the reason for his corruption and the average american shouldn't be worried about it while infact it was in our best interest to care about it because by having a pool it would not only hurt the common man but it brought nativism back in full effect. You see nativist developing an extreme hatred of immigrants because they would work for cheaper pay and when they went on strike against this injustice the immigrants would still continue to