Paul Cooney
Mr. DeCarlo
AP American
9 December 2006


LAD 17- Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

In Andrew Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth,” (1889) he expresses his views on how money should be spent, specifically how it should be distributed by the wealthy. In the document, he examines the three possible ways to share his wealth. Carnegie would seem to be a modest and generous man, not the greedy old rich person who never shares his/her money until death. He believed in sharing his wealth, and did so wisely by creating libraries for the public good. He believed that if money was used in this fashion rather than being “scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts,” it would be more valuable to the less fortunate. Carnegie believed that with the great wealth that he was given came a great responsibility; a responsibility to set an example, to help those dependant on him, and do for people as they could never do for themselves.