Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835, and grew up in rather poor family. He was born into an average working family and had his first job as a bobbin boy paying at $1.20 a week. He continued advancement and later became one of the biggest steel companies in the area. Although, he may have had a poor life before riches, he had no sympathy for the low class. He was quite a hypocrite. He grew up desperate for money and success, low wages were expected for the low class citizens. At the age of 14 Carnegie worked transporting telegraphs, and in 1853 he started working for the Pennsylvania railroad. When he worked for the railroad he was a personal telegrapher. After working for a while, he decided to start working for himself, Carnegie was in a position where he considered himself, ‘above the law’. In this time period the people with most power was not the government, but the businessmen. He was considered the richest man in the world, because he had over $400,000,000. The “Gospel of Wealth” is where the wealthy give their money to society, this is what Carnegie believed in. He gave to charities and donated about 2,500 libraries during his life time. He also believed in something called, “Social Darwinism,” Social Darwinism is a theory that all people, or groups, or groups of people are the same as plants and Although, his workers had potential, he gave them no chance and under pad the good men. He believed in “Social Darwinism,” and “Gospel of Wealth”. Many say he had been seen to have been a good person by donating money and libraries. But others say it was a way he covered up his bad personality, and the way that he lived. He shut down his work place for ‘renovation’ to replace his workers, and left most jobless. But many people still think today he may have been a good person, but he ripped potential out of good people by underpaying them and letting them starve, and giving them no money to take home to their
Industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick could not have come from more different backgrounds. Carnegie was born in the Scottish town of Dunfermline to a very poor family in 1835. When he was 12 years old, his father, a weaver, decided to move the family to the United States in search of better prospects, arriving at what was then the municipality of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh’s North Side. By that time, Pittsburgh was already known as a major center for the production of steel and other metals. In 1853, at the age of 18, Carnegie was hired as a telegraph operator for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and became a protégé of Thomas A. Scott, who would soon rise
Andrew Carnegie, was a strong-minded man who believed in equal distribution and different forms to manage wealth. One of the methods he suggested was to tax revenues to help out the public. He believed in successors enriching society by paying taxes and death taxes. Carnegie’s view did not surprise me because it was the only form people could not unequally distribute their wealth amongst the public, and the mediocre American economy. Therefore, taxations would lead to many more advances in the American economy and for public purposes.
Even though these men attempted to build a stable foundation for America to grow on, their negative aspects dramatically outweighed the positive. Even though Andrew Carnegie donated his fortunes to charity, he only acquired the money through unjustifiable actions. As these industrialists continued to monopolize companies through illegal actions, plutocracy- government controlled by the wealthy, took control of the Constitution. Sequentially, they used their power to prevent controls by state legislatures. These circumstances effect the way one
He treated his workers harshly with a wage range of 8 - 10 dollars a week. How are you supposed to support yourself with that little bit of money a week. He got rich off his own workers sweat and blood. That is just wrong, getting rich off the hard working class while he eats caviar.
Andrew Carnegie and his philanthropy made him a hero because he helped more people than harm in the long run, by this I mean he helped other countries. He also sets a great example to everyone that helping others or someone is not something you need to wait to do when you are no longer living. If someone needed help and even a stable person had the choice to help but until they are no longer alive has little meaning. Perhaps it would be too late when the person isn’t around anymore. Its about what someone can do to help when they are around, it is about what a person can do in the time of need even if it is not much but a little of anything can go a long way. In (Doc C) there is a list of amounts of money that Carnegie has donated to various places which in total he has donated well over $271m but aside from that his corporation is giving out about $100m a year, most of it to education (Doc C)
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.
Andrew Carnegie did not display heroic qualities because he was a dishonest man who had no concern for others seeing as he done his competitors dirty and treated his workers terribly. “Carnegie sent out a circular (notice)
Carnegie’s essay contains explanations of three common methods by which wealth is distributed and his own opinions on the effects of each. After reading the entire essay, readers can see his overall appeals to logos; having wealth does not make anyone rich, but using that wealth for the greater good does. He does not force his opinions onto the reader, but is effectively convincing of why his beliefs make sense. Andrew Carnegie’s simple explanations intertwined with small, but powerful appeals to ethos and pathos become incorporated into his overall appeal to logos in his definition of what it means for one to truly be rich.
Andrew Carnegie was born the year of 1835 in Scotland. When he was still a child his family moved to America. He first started working in
In the end, he gave away about 90% of his own money to various causes. He also preached to others to do the same as in giving money for education and sciences.The problem, however, was that there was such a contrast between the rich and the poor. By this he was referring to the inequalities in rights, hereditary powers, and such things. He also felt we should have a continuum of forward progress, i.e.
...failed in his duty to redistribute his surplus wealth to his community, and that the State should heavily tax the remaining estate. This belief that men of wealth were responsible for bridging the widening gap between the well-to-do and those hoping to do well led Carnegie to publish The Gospel of Wealth.
Carnegie did not believe in spending his money on frivolous things, instead he gave most of his fortune back to special projects that helped the public, such as libraries, schools and recreation. Carnegie believes that industries have helped both the rich and the poor. He supports Social Darwinism. The talented and smart businessmen rose to the top. He acknowledges the large gap between the rich and the poor and offers a solution. In Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie, he states, “the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves” (25). He believes the rich should not spend money foolishly or pass it down to their sons, but they should put it back into society. They should provide supervised opportunities for the poor to improve themselves. The rich man should know “the best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise- free libraries, parks, and means of recreation, by which men are helped in body and mind” (Carnegie p. 28). Also, Carnegie does not agree they should turn to Communism to redistribute wealth. Individuals should have the right to their earnings. Corporations should be allowed to act as it please with little to no government
...ve up the fortunes they have built themselves. It is an admirable idea to give your money to help promote a thriving community. Carnegie states that he is against charity and believes that those in need should be taught how to improve their own lives. To fund these institutes and corporations a form of charity must be given. Wealthy citizens give their excess money to a few to disperse of in a way they see fit to help the race. Most Americans are not willing to give up such a large sum of money as noble and respectable of an idea as it is. I think that Carnegie’s plan, in theory, would work and would be best for the race. I do not think it is practical because most would rather spoil their own family with inheritance than give it away to help people unknown to them. Carnegie’s idea of fair is equal opportunities for everyone to help themselves and the race.
Carnegie's first job was a telegraph messenger boy, and later upgraded to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as a telegraph operator. His persevering work allowed him to quickly advance through the company, and he became the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division. He continued making investments and made good profits throughout the civil war, and finally left Pennsylvania Railroad and started his own iron companies, eventually Keystone Bridge Works and Union Ironworks.
Andrew Carnegie was not always a man of great wealth, he started from nothing more than hard work and exceptional investing. Moving in 1848, at a young age with his family from Scotland to America to pursue more economic opportunities he never fully completed his education, but this did not stop his from pursuing better and greater things. This nevertheless caused him to strive from rags to riches by working for telegraph and railroad companies and later creating his own steel company, Carnegie Steel, which her eventually sold in 1901 for $230 million, making him one of the riches men in the world. Henceforth, leading him to pursue in