Industrialization and Cooperate Consolidation Attitudes towards Wealth
... A correlation can be drawn in our society between wealth and happiness. ... One might ask, how did wealth become so important in our society? Also, where did this wealth come from? ... In order to understand why and how this wealth was created one must put themselves into the mindset of the different classes during the late eighteen hundreds. ... s attitudes towards the wealth that was created during the industrial revolution: Booker T. ... Washington believed that any form of labor was honorable, Andrew Carnegie saw that wealth should be worked for and at the end of your life should be given according to the ?gospel of wealth?, they were both alike in how they agreed that progress up the economical ladder came from self- improvements; while Ida Tarbell believed that wealth was impossible to attain in this manner and that the ways in which big businesses obtained their monies was based on immoral and unethical practices. ... Washington can completely sum up his attitude towards the wealth created during the industrial revolution. ... s views on the wealth created in American during this period by showing how the poor and rich tried to attain affluence. ... Washington and Andrew Carnegie can be compared in their thinking of how wealth should be gained. ... s company had a monopoly over the steel industry, he still had very philanthropic ideas towards wealth that was created in the United States. ... s concepts of how every man must work his way up the ladder of wealth and attain everything through his own self- improvements. ... Gospel of Wealth? ... is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and after doing so to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds. ... Thus, he felt that the wealth created during the late nineteenth century should come from men who worked hard to get to the position they hold. ... s attitude towards the shrewdness of the capitalists?