The Gospel Of Wealth, By Andrew Carnegie

Everyone wants to be rich. In The Gospel of Wealth written by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie focuses on the 1% of the world’s population. The Gospel of Wealth is a blend of Social Darwinism and philanthropy. The essay argues that the rich people are superior to all others and that they should use their money to aid less fit people. Furthermore, Margin Call is a movie that captures a day in a global financial services firm called Lehman Brothers. In the film the firm tries to avoid falling into a financial crisis by attempting to achieve a 93% reduction in certain MBS asset classes in a sale. However, the film Margin Call contradicts the reasons presented in The Gospel of Wealth presented by Carnegie. Carnegie implies that being rich shows …show more content…
Throughout the film many decisions are made that contradict this statement proposed by Carnegie. In the scene when Will Emerson and Seth Bregman are driving in a convertible after talking to Eric, Emerson tells Seth “the only reason they all get to continue living like kings is because we’ve got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and the whole world gets really fucking fair really fucking quickly and nobody actually wants that”. This is a key scene is the film as it contradicts that the wealthy exist to help those less fit. Based on Emerson’s quote they exist to help each other obtain more wealth. Later in the same quote Emerson states that “they also want to play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. That’s more hypocrisy than I’m willing to swallow”. Emerson refers to the wealthy and how they pretend they are unaware of why they are so wealthy. The reason for their wealth is not because of hard work but rather cheating their way through life and finding ways to acquire more wealth without regarding the damage they are causing to the other 99% of the world’s