Who is Andrew Carnegie?
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Philanthropy
The intellectualCarnegie's development, was due in part to his great schoolmaster teaching English Philosopher, Herbert Spencer, who guided him through his ideals to the great virtue of helping society through community works.
The mean of the word Philanthropy is a person who gives money to good causes; precisely Carnegie made a dramatic
change in his life. He sold his business to
the United States Steel Corporation,stared
by legendary financier J.P Morgan.The sale earned him more than $200 million.
At the age of 65, Carnegie decided to spend the rest of his days helping others. While he had begun his philantropic work years earlier by building libraries and making donation, Carnegie expanded his efforts in the early 20th century.
Speaking about social work for the benefit of the society, he had great relevancies and events. Such is the case of his 'donations' ($5 millions to The New York Library) give the great example what we talked about his help; the Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh which is now known as Carnegie-Mellon University, was created with the porpose of mental development.
The Gospel of Wealth- article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889, describes the responsability of Philanthropy for the new class would emerge later, The Rich.
With the emergence of the rich class, Carnegie sought not agree with them, otherwise to deal with the new phenomenon approaching, social inequality. Generally, rich at that time inherited their property to their descendants, by entity, Carnegie sought the use of such property and capital to donate to the lowest social class and public purposes.
Carnegie ideal driving on "Surplus Wealth" was to have better management and use of wealth. Subsequently provided this capital was managed 'Carefully' by the upper class. However, Carnegie also argues about the waste of capital in the form of extravagance that is the misuse of the same, irresponsible spending or self - indulgence in look to promote the use of the capital during the lifetime towards the stratification of "Richs" and "Poor". Ultimately, it took to the rich class an example for the rest of Society.
Andrew Carnegie's peak wealth in comparison to modern-day billionaires
The Gospel of Wealth- Carnegie's Book
In the XXI century comes a millionaire philanthropists highlighting irruption first to Mr. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros, among others occur; they created foundations currently managed with business skills to direct the results of its non-profit activities. With these foundations, philanthropists and
especially Carnegie (#1 of the roster) have a great influence in the
governments of a globalized world.
Among the richest men in the world according to current 21st century ( as shown in the bar chart on the left ) first is precisely the entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie with a fortune of $ 309 billion dollars ; followed by Bill Gates with $ 136 billion and in last place Sam Walton, Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim.
There are others buildings for the Education development:
-Carnegie Hall, New York
-Carnegie Science Center
-Carnegie Museum of Natural History
-Carnegie Institute of Washington
-Foundation of Advancement of Teaching
and others are recognized around the world.
However, the Peace was his strong interest, interested in the control between all countries participate in the II World War, he formed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910.
Herbert Spencer-Crnegie Teacher
One of The Richest
