What is another word for robber baron?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈɒbə bˈaɹən] (IPA)

Robber baron is a term used to describe wealthy business magnates who became successful by ruthless means, including monopolistic practices, exploitation of workers, and lobbying of government officials for their own benefit. However, there are several similar terms that can be used to describe such individuals, including industrialist, magnate, tycoon, and baron. These terms all refer to people who have accumulated great wealth through business ventures, but they do not necessarily imply the negative connotations associated with robber barons. Nonetheless, the term robber baron remains a popular and powerful metaphor for the greed and corruption that can arise in the pursuit of wealth and power.

What are the hypernyms for Robber baron?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Robber baron

  • Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    Clive Staples Lewis
  • I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more dangerous I think it both to the rulers and to the subjects. Hence Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated, and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations. And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be. A metaphysic, held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign. It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated. In other words, it forbids wholesome doubt...
    C. S. Lewis
  • Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
    C. S. Lewis

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