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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And she was the daughter of a broken Pennsylvania oil man.
And she had a score to settle.
She knew the trust's greatest strength was its invisibility.
And she later observed a Rockefeller's maze of shell companies.
You could argue its existence from its effects, but you could not prove it.
And she thought she might be able to prove it now.
In May of 1887, one of the most senior men at Standard Oil sat down and wrote John D. Rockefeller a letter.
His name was William Worden.
He was one of the Philadelphia refiners who had quietly folded his company into Standard Oil the decade before.
He had grown richer than his wildest dreams for doing it, but he had gotten something else too, something he hadn't expected.
"'We have met with a success unparalleled in commercial history,' Gordon wrote in the letter.
"'Our name is well known all over the world,' he continued, "'but our public character is not one to be envied.
We are quoted as the representative of all that is evil, hard-hearted, oppressive, cruel.'"
He begged John Dee not to wave their dark public image away.
Don't put this down or throw it to one side.
Think it over and talk with Miss Rockefeller about it.
She is the salt of the earth.
Near the end of his life, Rockefeller explained how he had decided to handle it.
Suffice to say, he did not listen to William Warden.
During all of this time of outcry against us, I determined it was useless to waste energy in denials and disputes with jealous or disappointed people.
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