Shane Parrish
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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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Other industries soon copied the exact same form.
Think sugar, whiskey, cotton oil.
Within a decade, the trust would become shorthand for everything most Americans feared about big business, leading Congress to weaponize the legal system with a single landmark law.
aimed squarely at the form Standard Oil had invented.
They called it the Sherman Antitrust Act, and the act was designed to prohibit monopolies and promote competitive markets.
The trust had one more piece of unfinished business, geography.
The oil trade now ran on exports, and the exports ran through the eastern seaboard, where Standard's huge new refinery sat.
One of Rockefeller's partners put the problem to him bluntly.
A two-headed calf, he said, belonged in a circus.
You can't have one head in Cleveland and another in New York.
New York won.
Henry Flagler had already moved to New York.
In late 1883, Rockefeller himself followed, and then the rest of the Standard Oil men poured east after him.
They settled into the same few blocks of midtown Manhattan, with Flagler taking a house on one corner of West 54th Street and Rockefeller's brother William on another.
The Rockefellers, with their instinct for invisibility, skipped Fifth Avenue entirely and bought a four-story brown house on a quiet, shady side street.
At breakfast, after saying grace, Rockefeller sometimes read aloud to the family from the crank mail and threats that now swamped his office.
Nobody quite knew why.
Then he'd pull out a folder stuffed with begging letters and charity appeals from around the globe, and he assigned them to the children for further study.
His giving nearly doubled in those years, from 61,000 in 1881 to 119,000 three years later.
He was practicing for something far bigger, though nobody knew it yet, including him.
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