One of the "paganic" beliefs that the Aztecs thought at the prehistoric time would be that in order to continue the sun on moving, it must be fed with a precious fluid, at which time they guessed it could be human blood. They made a lot of human sacrifices for the sun in which these humans are mostly slaves or prisoners.
The intolerable act .....
John D. Rockefeller, he created Standard oil and used a system of horizontal integration, which really hurt the consumer but it made him rich. He was basically a terrible person but a genius businessman (he would have been a trillionaire by today's standards) :)