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How did he ruin people? His company was incredibly progressive for its time.
by colinplamondon 16y ago
How did he ruin people? His company was incredibly progressive for its time.
- rbanffy 16y agoRuthless competition, mostly. The example that illustrates his character is not related to this kind of behaviour, but to how he treated his workforce. The Homestead strike was caused by a broken promise to tie salaries to profits which, made in a downturn, reduced payments. When profits returned, he broke the promise, refused to keep salaries tied to profits, locked out the union workers who protested and used violence to end them. In the end, he hired immigrant workers in place of the previous employees, working for less in harsher conditions. Not exactly role model. http://bit.ly/8XRSwN http://bit.ly/8XRSwN This quote is, IIRC (lost track of the book and had to resort to Google) from Theodore Roosevelt.
- Retric 16y agoFYI: There is no reason to use url shorteners on hn and many people will not click on them.
- rbanffy 16y agoSorry. The URL was so huge I felt bad. When more than 50% of the message is a insanely long URL, something is clearly wrong.
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- sp332 16y agoHN truncates the display of long URLs. Yours is http://books.google.com/books?id=ni0EsmebjYwC&pg=RA1-PA750&dq=if+andrew+carnegie+had+employed+his+fortune&hl=en&ei=cIZATMJ1hIqXB67cyZsO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=if%20andrew%20carnegie%20had%20employed%20his%20fortune&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=ni0EsmebjYwC&pg=RA1-PA7...
- rbanffy 16y agoCool!
- orangecat 16y agoYes. In fact strike "on hn".