ELI5- how exactly do ‘bankers’ become the richest people around(Jp Morgan, Rockefeller, rothschilds etc.), when they don’t really produce anything.

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ELI5- how exactly do ‘bankers’ become the richest people around(Jp Morgan, Rockefeller, rothschilds etc.), when they don’t really produce anything.

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BTW, Rockefeller wasn’t a banker. He was an oil man. He basically cornered the oil market so much that they had to split his company (Standard Oil) into [34 different competing companies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Breakup), companies well known even today, such as Arco, Amoco, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, Phillips66

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