![]() Rockefeller once controlled 80% of the world’s supply of oil: today Google has 90% of the search market in Europe and 67% in the United States. ![]() More pointedly, they stand accused of being greedy businessfolk who suborn politicians, employ sweatshop labour, stiff other shareholders and, especially, monopolise markets. ![]() They have been diversifying into businesses that have little to do with computers, while egotistically proclaiming that they alone can solve mankind’s problems, from ageing to space travel. But just like Rockefeller and the other “malefactors of great wealth”, these new capitalists are losing their sheen. Like their predecessors, they were once revered as inventive mould-breakers, delivering gadgets to the masses. The second lot-call them the silicon sultans-could face a similar fate. The first group is now known as the robber barons. ![]()
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