Andrew Carnegie

I didn't know that.

Yeah, Andrew Carnegie.

They did some great shit.

Who really cares about how they broke strikes and were cruel and titans of industry and had monopolies? I mean, it's really where we're at now because Zuckerberg's just buying

He still remains, in a sense, an enigma, for it seems possible that the smiling face he has lately turned to the world conceals the real man more effectively than the frowning countenance he wore in former years.

As the dramatist saves his finest effect for the fall of the curtain, so we have saved for the last the most remarkable giver in history, Andrew Carnegie, whose total benefactions amount to at least 100 millions of dollars.

A sum so stupendous would bankrupt many a nation.

Yet Mr. Carnegie is so far from bankrupt that his gifts show no sign of diminution.

The story of how, starting out as a poor boy on the lowest round of the ladder, he acquired this immense fortune is a striking one.

Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835.

His father was a weaver, at one time fairly well-to-do, for he owned four hand looms.

But the introduction of steam ruined hand loom weaving, and after a long struggle ending in hardship and poverty, the looms were sold at a sacrifice and the family set sail for America.

In 1908, the richest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie, offered a broke young reporter a 20-year mission with zero pay while secretly timing his answer with a stopwatch.

Longer than 60 seconds, the offer was gone.

Napoleon Hill said yes in just 29.

He worked for a guy named Bob Taylor.

And Bob Taylor had a magazine.

And as the story goes, Napoleon got a commission to go and actually interview the richest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie.

The interview was scheduled for just three hours, but because him and Carnegie kind of hit it off, the interview actually lasted for three full days.

And at the end of these three days, Carnegie and Hill were sitting down at their desk, and Andrew Carnegie, he offered Napoleon Hill an opportunity.

I want to if I recall this, didn't the CDC say something like we are basically just following the the guidelines of the Rockefeller Foundation? What? Remember that? Why? Why are we following a global influence think tank operation for medical advice? It made no sense.

That'd be like saying, how do you get your health advice? Oh, I just asked Andrew Carnegie.

What? Andrew, why would you? Well, because he runs Giant Foundation, so clearly he knows how to be healthy.

How is the audio janky? It should be fine.

Midwives were attending births, and that was how birth was.

And then J.D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, right, they founded the first medical schools.

They wanted to – They were founding that, so they were creating the education.

And

and made a fortune.

But he was a disciple of Andrew Carnegie, who was the great Scottish philanthropist.

All our libraries in Ireland are built by Carnegie.

And Carnegie had this notion of, you know, he had a great line, he said, to die rich is to die disgraced.

They did, okay? You know, let me ask you a question, Robert.

How many Robert Reich libraries are at colleges and universities that you paid for? How many libraries and buildings did Andrew Carnegie donate with his hard-earned dollars all over the country? So stop.

Already, okay? Enough.

And Musk, he says, represents the power of oligarchy in America over democracy.

I'm talking about the Gilded Age, the late 19th century when industrial fortunes were growing at an astonishing rate.

Railroads, steel, oil, banking, men like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan, These guys accumulated wealth on a scale that was difficult for ordinary Americans to comprehend.

And with that wealth came political influence.

Railroad companies, for example, had enormous interests in government decisions involving land, regulation, taxation, and transportation.