Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

                                                    Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

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                                                     Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

                 According to Carnegie (2014), wealth results from hard work and perseverance. In the contemporary world, there is a significant difference between the rich and the poor. However, in the past there was an economic and political equality. There was no one leading a better life than the other. The current average person can afford what the richest person in the old days could not afford. The disparity has been enhanced by the revolution brought about by the civilization (Köseman, 2012). Civilization has brought the need to look for wealth and the ways for looking for it.

                  The current middle class is made up of individuals who know how to get wealth. However, the wealthy people do not achieve the wishes of the ultimate end of their property upon their death. Carnegie called upon the wealthy to share their wealth with the poor so that they can witness the usage of their assets while alive (Carnegie, 2014). He further claimed that it was unspeakable for someone to die wealthy. The essence of sharing the wealth with the poor was to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor (Köseman, 2012). There was no need for using the capital for individual happiness while others were desperate.

               An observation aroused the argument of Carnegie that many wealthy people left their property to the heirs upon their death. The heirs eventually misappropriated the use of the ownership for their pleasure. The argument, therefore, was against the bequeathing the property to the heirs (Carnegie, 2014). He also claimed that when the property was left to the charity organizations, there was no guarantee that the money would be used as intended. The reason was that there was no supervision since the individual would be already dead.

References

Köseman, Z. (2012). From the way of wealth to the gospel of wealth. Bethesda, Md.: Academica Press.

Carnegie, A. (2014). Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay of The Gospel of Wealth. Mineola: Dover Publications.