Analysis Of The Gospel Of Wealth By Andrew Carnegie

The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie is the most well-known essay of the famous industrialist turned philanthropist in which Carnegie stated what he saw as the problem in which the way wealth was administered in society. Although he did not loathe for a small portion of the population controlling most of the country’s money in reality Carnegie suggested it was needed for a wealth gap to be present while not everybody can have the fanciest things it’s important as it ensures that there is always progress being done to ensure a better quality of life for the lower class as the bar is constantly being raised to prevent a halt in the race of development. “This change, however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly beneficial. It is well, nay, essential for the progress of the race, that the houses of some should be homes for all that is

With the best way to ensure that their money was spent responsibly was for them to spend it for the public while they still lived as leaving it to family beyond a sustainable amount is harmful and only spoils them and distributing one’s money to the state after their passing is almost as bad as not distributing it at all as they would likely be the people who would take their money with them to the afterlife if they could. As well as people can’t show gratitude to the deceased nor should they as they only helped after they couldn’t use their money and not while they lived. “Besides this, it may fairly be said that no man is to be extolled for doing what he cannot help doing, nor is he to be thanked by the community to which he only leaves wealth at death. Men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all, had they been able to take it with them.” (12th