That tragic landscape was the unintended consequence of the philosophy that inspired Pullman to bring his factories and workers to a site isolated from Chicago by miles of open prairie. Convinced that ordinary people don't know what's best for them, Pullman was determined to make decisions about where and how his employees would live. He considered unions to be the working people's nemesis because they challenged the power of entrepreneurs to whose vision they owed their jobs. Pullman named the streets of his town for fellow captains of industry — George Stephenson, the railroad pioneer; Robert Fulton, the steamboat's developer; Samuel Morse, the telegraph's inventor.