Henry George Wealth Analysis

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“How many men are there that fairly earn a million dollars?” This question concludes Henry George’s article, Progress and Poverty. George was a journalist who later became a reform figure. Progress and Poverty was an article about how wealth should be gained and what taxes should be collected. Andrew Carnegie, an immigrant turn American business leader, wrote The Gospel of Wealth (1889), an essay about how wealth should be distributed. George and Carnegie had different views about who wealth should be given to, how wealth should be given, and also taxes. Throughout the two pieces of work, one can definitely tell they have totally different points of view on the subjects. Henry George thought that wealth should be given to the “producers,”