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Also, most of the robber barons of the early Industrial Revolution gave away all or most their wealth. https://factmyth.com/factoids/the-robber-barons-gave-mos

Also, most of the robber barons of the early Industrial Revolution gave away all or most their wealth. https://factmyth.com/factoids/the-robber-barons-gave-most-of-their-fortunes-to-charity https://factmyth.com/factoids/the-robber-barons-gave-most-of... https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/ https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/

mattmaroon 2y ago
Giving away much of one’s wealth is very different than choosing not to accumulate it in the first place. It’s hard to find someone who has gotten to a position where they might have a reasonable shot at becoming the world’s wealthiest person who doesn’t think they’d be a great steward of the wealth. It makes much more sense for a titan of industry to make as much as they can and then give much away than it does to simply not make it.