Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What made this series particularly lethal was its clinical calculation.
Knowing that Standard Oil's lawyers would pounce on any emotional outbursts, Turbo weaponized a mountain of dry public records, footnotes, and court testimonials.
By adopting the tone of a detached researcher, she massed her personal crusade, allowing the selected raw data to quietly dismantle the company's reputation piece by piece.
And she gave the company its fair due with an entire chapter discussing its legitimate greatness.
There was not a lazy bone in the organization, she wrote, not an incompetent hand nor a stupid head.
Having established that these were the best men in the world at what they did, she showed that despite all that, they had cheated anyway.
Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, she concluded, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 where he has run a race with a competitor and started it fair.
To the old defense that everybody in the industry took rebates, she had a flat answer.
Everybody did not do it.
It is in the nature of the offense that everybody could not do it.
Month after month, everything Rockefeller assumed was safely buried decades ago came back up in print, with the public crying for more.
Tarbell delivered.
The South Improvement Company, the Cleveland Massacre, the drawbacks.
She found one detail from a teenage office boy assigned to burn records at a Standard plant.
While doing so, he spotted in the furnace pile the name of his own Sunday school teacher, a small independent refiner.
The paper was from a railroad, and it showed the man's shipments from that week.
Standard Oil was the largest refiner in the country, but felt threatened enough by one man's business to keep tabs on him.
The smallness of it was what shook Ida Tarbell the most.
There was a littleness about it that seemed utterly contemptible compared to the immense genius and ability that had gone into the organization, she wrote.
And Rockefeller said nothing.
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