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Undoubtedly Andrew Carnegie distributed his fortune to the benefit of the populace and created a lasting legacy while doing it. However, he believed wealth was
by anonu 3y ago
Undoubtedly Andrew Carnegie distributed his fortune to the benefit of the populace and created a lasting legacy while doing it. However, he believed wealth was supposed to be in the hands of a select few and not in the broader population: leveraging the working man to attain his position of privelege.
- hammock 3y agoIs there a single personal fortune that did not leverage the working man? That’s kind of how labor + capital work
- Workaccount2 3y agoFind a massive boulder of pure gold in unclaimed territory. But of course you could still make the case that gold only has value when there are workers to work it.
- momirlan 3y agomost gold prospectors work hard to find that boulder. you could argue one could fall upon it in the middle of Manhattan, but that is a good story, not a typical example
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoFunny how that works eh? It's almost as if the system itself is corrupt