Andrew Carnegie Explains The Gospel Of Wealth

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In the article, Andrew Carnegie Explains the gospel of Wealth, 1889 by Andrew Carnegie, provides the audience with a very distinctive explanation on how to best attain and distribute wealth. In Carnegie article, he best explains that if the rich really want to help one's need they must make a conscious effort to make change rather than just throwing money at a group or charity. If the money is simply given to the people who are begging, they will never learn the true value of money or know how hard the work comes behind it. Hard work pays off and the more that people see the hard work pay off the harder they will want to work or at least Carnegie refers to this. Competition is necessary and so is homogeneity. Both of these facilitate the unequal

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