the robber barons’ overarching story –before it is marx-hammered in detail into pigeonhole anecdotes from the personally and perhaps even righteously offended –is of creating personal and community and national wealth (aka “profiteering”) by efficiently supplying what was in demand (“opportunism”), by risking initially borrowed capital (“gambling with the people’s savings”) to attract & employ individuals who wanted, if not necessarily enjoyed, the work (“exploiting the working class”).