Remember when the robber barons and pure-strain capitalists would do the occasional good thing, like build a library?
2025-01-19T13:00:23Z (Diaries)
By @PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social at Sun January 19, 2025 at 13:00:23PM GMT
Remember when the robber barons and pure-strain capitalists would do the occasional good thing, like build a library?
@PatrickoftheG Andrew Carnegie is not usually considered a role model for moral behavior, but he wrote The Gospel of Wealth, founded the Carnegie Corporation (one of the first non-profit grant making organizations), and funded hundreds of libraries in the US, many of which are still standing.
The Gospel of Wealth | Andrew Carnegie | Gutenberg.org
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10253