A Captain of Industry can be defined as an honest business leader who affects others and their community in positive ways through creating jobs, donating money and making their products accessible to many. A Robber Baron on the other hand acquires their wealth through unethical and dishonest ways by exploiting resources and labor. We can all inarguably agree that entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie and Steve jobs have made massive impacts within their business professions. From Carnegie working in a factory at age 13 for $1.20 a week to becoming one the wealthiest businessmen in America during the 1800s. Andrew Carnegie is a true testimony to what hard work can achieve. To a more modern man who shares a similar story of success as Carnegie is Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs, a man who wasn't too fond of formal education and often found himself is troubling situations with others soon achieved accomplishments that would change the way we see/use technology today. Yet the question we are left to ask …show more content…
Steve developed innovations and inventions in technology that were meant to benefit the people. He wanted to make technology accessible to everyone, so he made his tech smaller and cheaper. In addition to creating technology that helps us in more ways than one, is that he also donated large sums of his own money to charities. Jobs was a very private person and never mentioned philanthropic duties in the media (which lead to many criticising him) but did in fact donate $50 million to Stanford hospitals in California and funded HIV and AIDS research.
In conclusion both Andrew Carnegie and Steve Jobs were very successful hard working entrepreneurs. They impacted America in such a way that their innovations and business ideas have changed the way we look and use technology today. They are true Captains of Industry who used their power, success and wealth to help their communities and America
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were two of the richest men in American history. They relied on steel and oil to begin their journey as moneymaking businessmen. Without these two important materials, the growth of railroads, bridge construction, and even the production of gasoline was not possible. There are many similarities and differences between Carnegie and Rockefeller and how they became the successful men they are known as today.
Andrew Carnegie, the “King of Steel”, the benevolent employer, the giant of industry, was among the greatest influences of the second industrial revolution. It is sometimes questioned whether Carnegie was the ruthless, sneaky steel tyrant some made him out to be, or the generous, benevolent education benefactor he appeared to be. I believe him to be a combination of both, but more so the great giant of industry.
Businessmen of the Gilded Age like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and Vanderbilt were captains of industry. Industrialists economically improved the United States by contributing the most money, which was made from the successes of their companies. In addition, they were financially beneficial to communities and set an example of philanthropy and lifestyle for others to follow. Moreover, they resorted to unscrupulous tactics not only for their financial gain, but for America’s financial gain as well. People who believe that captains of industry are robber barons may say that they didn’t financially benefit the U.S. economy during the Gilded Age.
Andrew Carnegie, a robber barron that took advantage of his poor employees and his relentless competition, his personal intentions and innovations in the steel industry and philanthropic distributions positively changed America's society and views of education. Early 19th century, the American industrialist of the time, we're gathering good fortunes through Carnegie's ideas and initiatives. This man started out onto the road to wealth and success, starting from rags to the riches and earned the reputation he brought among himself, bringing him into American history. For those who exploited others on the road to wealth were automatically labeled as “robber-barrons" i.e. John D. Rockefeller, Ph.D. Nevertheless, those whose personal success positively impacted the United States, earning the title of the" captains of industry" surprisingly Andrew Carnegie happened to do both.
In the nineteenth century, when I hear the word Captain of Industry the name Andrew Carnegie comes to mind. Rather than being a Robber Baron, I believe Carnegie deserves the title Captain of Industry for many reasons. One reason would be that he came from being a poor young boy in Scotland, to being one of the richest men in America years after he and his family immigrated to the United States of America. The next reason would be that he provided many of his workers high earnings of money as well as how he funded certain public places. The third reason for his title of a Captain of Industry is that he surrounded himself around the right people and worked very hard with his jobs, using very wise tactics to get his work done.
The captain of industries were businessmen who also benefitted society through their accumulation of wealth, using methods such as increased productivity, the expansion of markets, offering up new jobs to the working class, and other acts of generosity. All of the notable industrialists dubbed “robber barons” were also named “captain of industries” as well. Therefore, there have been many debates as to whether the term “robber barons” really did justice to the industrialists, when taking into account of their effects on America’s economy, and not just the negative aspects. While the robber barons did harm specific groups of people in order to meet their selfish goals, as well as execute ruthless tactics to surpass their competitors, they have also created an economic boom in which they created larger manufacturing companies, created many employment opportunities for the working class. Even though robber barons went to extreme measures and harmed others in their pursuit of wealth, they have also, and built a stable and prosperous
Some of these industrialists’ methods may not have been fair. However, unfair acts are not always illegal acts. For the most part these men stayed within the boundaries of the law. In the cruel world we live in it is necessary to be ruthless in your work. There are several people who took their ruthlessness too far and contributed nothing to society but worked only for their own personal fortune. An example of this type of industrialist is Jay Gould (Maury Klein pg. 34). He is a robber baron in the truest sense of the word. However most of the powerful industrialists had financial goals for themselves as well as society.
Andrew carnegie was an obvious Captain of Industry. He was born into a family that was very poor, his father was a weaver that nothing big was expected to come from little Andrew. However, soon came the Industrial revolution, and with that, came more machinery. So much machinery in fact, that Carnegie’s dad got replaced and fired from his weaving job, because of these machines. Soon, his father found himself begging for jobs to be able to help his family. The family became so poor in fact that Carnegie's mother had to start working to help support the family.Carnegie once said "I began to learn what poverty meant."
There are several men who were considered to have built america because of their major contributions to the country. One of them is andrew carnegie. Andrew carnegie is famous for his large part in the 19th century steel industry. Along with being a remarkable philanthropist, he was a big enthusiast in making the world a better place. He is known for his large donations to educational, cultural and scientific organizations. Starting out as a bobbin boy in a textile mill, carnegie worked his way up the economic ladder by becoming a delivery boy and then an operator to earn more money for him and his family. when he was 18, he was hired by Thomas A Scott, of the pennsylvania railroad. While leading a successful business life, carnegie began to
The big business leaders of the Industrial Revolution like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Leland Stanford were certainly captains of industry. They each contributed innovations that made this era extremely significant for its advanced modernization. These renovations include: the opening of a steel plant, the Standard Oil Company finding, and the development of the railroad system in California. While these implementations are mostly associated with their names, they certainly did not create them on their own.
Andrew Carnegie was a well known businessman who made a fortune with his major company, Carnegie Steel. But the hot topic is not about the company, rather the man. Some claim Carnegie was a robber baron who treated his workers terrible, just so he could get his money. Others, consider him a perfectly fair, captain of industry who worked hard to get where he got. Throughout his whole life, Carnegie made and still continues to make, a difference in the world today.
Andrew Carnegie showed many signs of being a captain of industry, but he was a robber baron. Carnegie ran a steel company called the “Carnegie Steel Company.” Andrew Carnegie is the second richest American of all time with a net worth of $309 billion dollars (in today’s money). Clearly, his business was a huge success.
Steve Jobs was a college dropouts with no big plans. No one would have guessed that him and two of his friends working in a garage would be the beginning of a revolution in the world of technology. The free enterprise system made it possible for Steve Jobs to revolutionize the world with Apple products.
The Gilded Age of the Industrial Revolution was an era of creation and expansion. Strong businessmen took this period of opportunity to capitalize on the nation’s desire to grow; Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan were three such men. The three of them were fabulously wealthy and successful, but their reputation with the masses varied. In the Gilded Age, the title “Captain of Industry” was given to one who used their own wealth and influence to positively impact their society. Their opposites, “robber barons”, were industrialists who amassed their wealth through unethical methods. Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan are three men that prove that industrial leaders could not be perfectly classified under only one of these titles.
Overall, Steve Jobs was a great inventor. He changed the world with his many technological advances and the opening of his now world-famous company, Apple. He showed great determination, skill, and knowledge throughout all of his undertakings. Steve Jobs will never be forgotten and his inventions still live on today.