As Andrew Carnegie had said, “And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.” Some may agree with him and others may not, but for Andrew Carnegie free enterprise was a necessary system for him to make it into the steel industry and on top of that make an impact on people of wealth to give back to the less fortunate.
Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant from Scotland that made his way to the United States like many other immigrants for a better life, wanting to live the “American dream.” He knew what it felt like to come from nothing, which is why he was an advocate to work better for your own life, to be in charge …show more content…
The wealth of these men and women would not have been able to be accomplished without the help of the average men and women being their workers and helping their businesses strive. Carnegie became a financer of libraries. Even though, he wasn’t able to obtain the best schooling, whenever he had the chance to expand his knowledge he did so. His family was big on books and keeping his brain fed by education. It’s been said that more than 2,800 libraries were opened with the help of Andrew. Libraries weren’t the only way that Carnegie gave back, he gave back to charitable foundations and institutions and universities were opened because of him. Carnegie wouldn’t have been able to give back as he did without the wealth that he had, and he obtained that wealth through free enterprise and beating the competition. Along with Andrew giving back so did his rival, J.D. Rockefeller. Andrew’s beliefs that those of great wealth are responsible socially to give back were put into an article “Wealth” in 1889 that was put into a book “The Gospel of Wealth” in
Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant from Scotland that made his way to the United States like many other immigrants for a better life, wanting to live the “American dream.” He knew what it felt like to come from nothing, which is why he was an advocate to work better for your own life, to be in charge …show more content…
The wealth of these men and women would not have been able to be accomplished without the help of the average men and women being their workers and helping their businesses strive. Carnegie became a financer of libraries. Even though, he wasn’t able to obtain the best schooling, whenever he had the chance to expand his knowledge he did so. His family was big on books and keeping his brain fed by education. It’s been said that more than 2,800 libraries were opened with the help of Andrew. Libraries weren’t the only way that Carnegie gave back, he gave back to charitable foundations and institutions and universities were opened because of him. Carnegie wouldn’t have been able to give back as he did without the wealth that he had, and he obtained that wealth through free enterprise and beating the competition. Along with Andrew giving back so did his rival, J.D. Rockefeller. Andrew’s beliefs that those of great wealth are responsible socially to give back were put into an article “Wealth” in 1889 that was put into a book “The Gospel of Wealth” in