I know. I didn't say they were going to sell commodity chips. Just that they were big enough to own their own stack.
> Separately, Rockefeller's coercion of the railroads was not something he did because he was big, it was something he did to become big.
No. It was something an already large SO did to get bigger. If Standard Oil wasn't big, it could never coerce the railroads to begin with.
> When they were struggling, he would buy them up at distressed prices and turn the rails back on.
I know. But small insignificant standard oil didn't do this. It was big standard oil on its way to even bigger and better things.
I know. I didn't say they were going to sell commodity chips. Just that they were big enough to own their own stack.
> Separately, Rockefeller's coercion of the railroads was not something he did because he was big, it was something he did to become big.
No. It was something an already large SO did to get bigger. If Standard Oil wasn't big, it could never coerce the railroads to begin with.
> When they were struggling, he would buy them up at distressed prices and turn the rails back on.
I know. But small insignificant standard oil didn't do this. It was big standard oil on its way to even bigger and better things.