A real entrepreneur, a man who turned a useless natural substance to a valued commodity people were willing to pay for as a convenience, and even as a product useful for human comfort and health. And along the way he provided jobs for others, and did very little damage to the environment. He deserves to turn a tidy profit for himself and his heirs.
But they're not all like him.
Business, like government, science, scholarship, sport, even warfare, is a human institution capable of good or evil. But as with any other institution, when it becomes an end in itself, sanctioned and revered by custom and ideology and jealously protected from all criticism and review by those who profit most from its undisciplined growth and application, then it becomes something ugly and corrupt, decadent and foul.
The Kochs and their ilk are not the inheritors of the Tudors of this world, they are their ultimate perversion.
Space/Science » in reply to the ice king
Tudor was a hero.