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- Blowout:
- Chapter 1: Rockefeller was a very rich man, owing to his company Standard Oil. The company was a monopoly and, when asked to break down, made Rockefeller richer.
- Big oil companies today (such as Exxon, Chevron etc.) have roots going back to Standard.
- He wasn’t exactly a saint: bribing politicians, anti-monopolistic activities etc.
- (Meta: I listened to this chapter today morning and already forgot most of the details. We humans have such fallible memories!)
- Chapter 2:
- Talks about how a company collaborated with a federal nuclear-related agency to create a nuclear bomb to help with natural gas extraction.
- The former didn’t have the technology or research background to do this on its own.
- The latter too had a stake: their image in the world had gone bad after nuclear bombing in WW-2 in Japan and they wanted such commercial/practical/non-harmful usage of their technology would help improve the image.
- Talks about how a company collaborated with a federal nuclear-related agency to create a nuclear bomb to help with natural gas extraction.
- Chapter 1: Rockefeller was a very rich man, owing to his company Standard Oil. The company was a monopoly and, when asked to break down, made Rockefeller richer.