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With all that leverage, Scott is confident
基于這一優(yōu)勢 斯科特很自信
he has the ammunition to take on Rockefeller.
自己有足夠的資本挑戰(zhàn)洛克菲勒
But Rockefeller isn't one to back down from a fight.
但是洛克菲勒絕對不是一個輕易服輸?shù)娜?/p>
I don't want one drop of our oil traveling on the Pennsylvania.
我不希望我的任何一滴油通過賓州鐵路運輸
But what about the Pittsburgh refineries?
匹茲堡的那些煉油廠怎么辦
Shut them down.
關(guān)掉它們
Shutting down his refineries will cost
關(guān)閉煉油廠會讓標(biāo)準(zhǔn)石油
Standard Oil a fortune in lost revenue,
承受一筆巨大的收益損失
but for Rockefeller, crushing his competition
但在洛克菲勒看來 打敗競爭對手
matters more than anything else.
比其它任何事情都更重要
Without Rockefeller's oil,
沒了洛克菲勒的石油
Scott loses nearly half of his business,
斯科特的生意幾乎減少了一半
forcing him to lay off tens of thousands of workers,
這讓他不得不裁掉數(shù)以萬計的工人
and drastically cut wages.
并大幅削減工資
Those workers take to the streets in protest.
這些工人到街上舉行抗議
And as darkness falls on Pittsburgh,
隨著匹茲堡黑暗的降臨
they turn violent.
他們變得狂暴起來
A fire is set in Tom Scott's train yards.
湯姆·斯科特的火車場被點燃
Before the night is over,
黑夜結(jié)束之前
more than thirty-nine buildings
超過39座的建筑
and over twelve hundred train cars are destroyed.
和超過1200節(jié)的車廂被毀壞
Tom Scott's company lays in ruin.
湯姆·斯科特的公司成了一片廢墟
This is how capitalism works.
這就是資本主義
The railroads had been the big suppliers
鐵路業(yè)對石油業(yè)而言
of transportation in the oil industry,
是重要的運輸提供商
and so the railroads quite naturally resisted.
鐵路公司以此對抗石油公司是再自然不過的事了
They dug in their heels whenever they could.
他們會采取寸步不讓的堅定立場
Eventually they lost.
最終 他們失敗了
Come on.
起來吧
Let's go.
我們走
JohnDRockfeller
約翰·D·洛克菲勒
has replaced Cornelius Vanderbilt
取代科尼利厄斯·范德比爾特
as the richest man in America.
成為了美國最富有的人
His net worth is now over $150 million,
他的資產(chǎn)凈值超過了1.5億美元
or $225 billion today.
換算到今天 大約值2250億美元
It's dazzlingly amazing
很難想象
that one individual was able to corner about
一個人竟然能夠壟斷
ninety-eight percent of all the kerosene and
煤油大約98%的市場
eventually all production in the world.
并最終壟斷整個世界的生產(chǎn)
He was a brilliant business person.
他是一個杰出的商人
I can only give him credit for that.
我對他的贊揚僅限于此
I don't have to give him credit for
他變得如此強(qiáng)大的壟斷方式
the way that he became that powerful.
顯然不應(yīng)當(dāng)提倡
But all titans are targets.
不過所有的巨人都會成為目標(biāo)
And now Rockefeller is about to come face to face
洛克菲勒也將面臨
with his biggest challenge ever.
他人生中最大的挑戰(zhàn)
