John D. Rockefeller was the famous entrepreneur of the Standard Oil Company and undeniably the world’s first richest men. Eager to get his hands dirty, Rockefeller acquired numerous amount of small jobs through his adolescent years. In 1882, he and other companies merged into one to create the Standard Oil Trust, which control over ninety percent of America’s refineries and pipelines. Rockefeller became one of the prime products of the American Dream; a rags to riches story Americans come to love. Lately, it appears as if these stories are becoming fantasies of what Americans wish could happen. The basis of the American Dream has always been to get a job, get married, and start a family, but times have changed as the nation is still in debt.
