>Do you know how the railroad infrastructure was built? Abusing the heck out of immigrants and genociding the native people, I'm pretty sure. Also this (link i

>Do you know how the railroad infrastructure was built? Abusing the heck out of immigrants and genociding the native people, I'm pretty sure. Also this (link is https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3147 https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&...): >Construction of the railroad provided many opportunities for financial chicanery, corruption, graft, and bribery. The greatest financial scandal of the 19th century grew out of the railroad's construction. The president of the Union Pacific helped found a construction company, called Credit Mobilier, which allowed investors, including several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts to themselves, while nearly bankrupting the railroad. I don't think the corporation/government good/evil dichotomy you have made is so clean cut.