Andrew Carnegie's Gospel Of Wealth

Andrew Carnegie in “Gospel of Wealth” talks about the problem people were facing in 1889 was the administration of wealth, which was the era of industrial revolution. He was a person who didn’t want equality between wealthy and rich people, he always said rich people are the fittest and they should be. He gave reasons for what he said, people are poor because of themselves, they don’t work and don’t have education to progress. Carnegie was anti charity and didn’t support people who needed help. His thinking was to invest money on things where poor people will work and earn money for their living. Because poor people don’t know how to take advantage of money, that’s why they are poor. Carnegie believed that rich people should use their wealth to help the poor, but he did not say that they should just give the money away because the poor would not use it in the best ways. Therefore, the rich man should be paternalistic. He should spend his money for the benefit of the poor, just like parents spend for the benefit of their children without actually letting the children having the money. Carnegie thought whatever he was doing, he was doing it for the best of people. If Aristotle wrote to Carnegie on “Gospel of wealth” he would not praise what Carnegie has said about poor people and the prestige he gave to wealth people. …show more content…
Aristotle “people want to live happily with honor, respect and knowledge. Money does not put you in a good or bad category, it doesn’t define what your personality is” (aim of the man). Carnegie thought money is the only thing, which can give you happiness and it makes you feel royal so that you can get whatever you want. On the other side Aristotle thinks every human takes action and aim at something good, every action has an end to it. For example, “health is the end of medicine and victory of the art of war” (aim of the