barons

Bitcoin is controlled by the few barons who own most of the coins, and unlike central banks, those barons are entirely, rationally aligned with their own personal profit.

Companies/Corporations are modern day dukes, robber barons and tyrants, and people with power and influence have always been spied upon.

In the late 19th century, a form of modern feudalism emerged in the US, under the control of the robber barons.

The only way this turns Facebook into robber barons is if they're able to drive developer's salaries down as a result.

So the corporate barons and media moguls are correctly typed as psychopaths, not sociopaths.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

> Yes that's what the robber barons keep repeating, Screw the robber barons - and, while you're at it, screw the progressive politicians and labor unions too.

Not nearly as much as those Russian oligarchs and Arab oil barons did.

We have always been a nation of criminals, robber barons, and capitalist mercenaries.

The robber barons built entire greenfield company towns with a paternalistic controlling agenda!

Often pissed off (justifiably) about the arrogance of the Valley's tech barons.

Yes that's what the robber barons keep repeating, but why not think of businesses and employee wages in terms of percentage of the profits generated?

Better than "the media barons slaughtered 222,000 more in today's fighting over broadcast rights, thus starting the 27th copyright war".

In past years, instead of "VCs" the villains have been hedge funds, private equity, corporate raiders, giant conglerates, corporations in general, investment trusts, robber barons, and colonial empires.