I grew up going to a Carnegie Library as child and that inspired me to seek higher education and graduate studies. I know so many others whose youthful experiences in Carnegie libraries as nerdy scholars, motivated by the sheer size and scope of the collections, led them towards great careers and advancements. As father of the American library system his contribution just there was without scale or measure. Those libraries were the internet, iphone/Android, and Google to us all. Now being digitized, those books are giving back to younger researchers by the millions. Thank you Andy!
I grew up in Pittsburgh, you couldn’t not learn about him in elementary school. He solved his problems by hurling poor immigrants at them, but then he built libraries and museums and gave away his fortune; what a dichotomy.
1:15 - Chapter 1 - Early years 3:50 - Chapter 2 - Life in america 6:25 - Chapter 3 - Business during the civil war 7:40 - Mid roll ads 9:00 - Chapter 4 - A man of industry 10:50 - Chapter 5 - The billion dollar corporation 12:20 - Chapter 6 - High points & heartbreaks 13:45 - Chapter 7 - The johnstown flood 17:05 - Chapter 8 - The homestead strike 19:10 - Chapter 9 - Philanthropy
Carnegie really thought through everything. He gave his heirs just enough to have a comfortable life, and the opportunity with that to prove themselves with the money he gave them. He never trusted charities because like most they're money wagons peddling to people's guilt while taking greater sum for themselves rather than those they represent.
@Curious Bob yeah im ok with how he did it 👌. You going to blame a man for taking advantage of what was legal at the time? Because of the robber barons we got worker protections laws and regulations while the US became an industry juggernaut.
@@andrewespinoza7108 no sir. Andrew Carnegie let H.C. Frick set labor union in steel back 40 years. He only gave his fortune up because he felt intense guilt over his labor practices. He was a social Darwinist, an exploiter, an entrepreneur, a diplomat. Both of you are correct. He was a great and terrible man. Complex enough to not be reduced to a comments section. I highly recommend reading several biographies including his autobiography if you care to explore his mind.
@@TheGLaDOSvideoCorethat's just a straight up lie. I'm not saying he doesn't. Cause that's what an "investment" often is. He donates money and essentially gives it away on charity projects. Bill Gates is one of the most respectable men out there. Stop spreading blatant disinformation
Despite his vocal criticism of the wealthy, Mark Twain was friends with Andrew Carnegie. When people would say "How can you be friends with Carnegie? His money is tainted." Twain replied "That's right. Taint mine and taint yours."
I love the fact that he gave money to Tuskegee Institute to help get it started. Booker T. Washington and him had a great relationship and their is a building named after him there.
Rockefeller was one of his opponents/peers. Rockefeller also was a huge philanthropists. From what I've read, they competed with Each Other in that regard.
Now I see where my life went wrong, I should have met more wealthy people when I was a working child. For every Andrew Carnegie, you have countless others who didn't make those right connections, and struggled in poverty for the rest of their lives. Perhaps they got sick, and never recovered. Some of those could have been another industrialist like Carnegie, or a scientific genius like Einstein, but instead died young in the cycle of poverty.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr. followed a similar trajectory. Born to a bigamous father and poor mother, he lived extremely frugally, became ruthless in business, becoming the “Moses of Oil,” and once he stepped back from Standard Oil, became a nice, likable grandfather who donated hundreds of millions of dollars, often anonymously.
The downtown library in my city was originally built using Carnegie's funds, and much of the old building is still around today. It is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful buildings in the city of Columbus.
I mean, the Johnstown flood was exasperated pretty badly by the fact that Johnstown is in the worst possible place to avoid flooding, since it's in the middle of a bowl. It even had another two big floods after the one related to Carnegie. Not to take away from the fact that it was the fault of the country club, but still.
I've read the witness plaques in Johnstown, will never forget the detail described of the horrors that happened before them. I remember some bodies were found all the way near Pittsburgh and one made it to Ohio. Edit: Simon mentioned the Ohio body a few moments after writing.
The flooda were in 1936 and 1977. The bodies washing up in Pittsburgh were the only any knew something bad had happened. The flood took out the telegraph lines.
Frick was all about Management by the Numbers, and even though Carnegie had hired him to increase the profit margin, the only thing Frick cared about was the bottom line, whatever the cost. Eventually Carnegie had to dismiss Frick, and while he received a handsome severance for his shares of stock, the breakup was less than friendly and Frick's descendants still bear a grudge against Carnegie for portraying Frick as the bad guy. While their practices would be considered inhumane and illegal by todays standards, back then it was how the game was played and it was survival of the fittest. And Carnegie also held grudge against Rockefeller, who literally drove his mentor Scott into an early grave by unscrupulous deals in the railroad industry in which Scott had become heavily invested in. It was the best of times; It was the worst of times.
Forgot to mention the little idea of Frick’s called strike busting by hiring what can be described as thugs to beat and kill striking employees to scare others not to strike.
I do not think the world realised the impact of this man's philanthropic efforts. To tell u the truth, I have no words to crown this man for his impact on my life and the lives of many Guyanese. I took umbrage to the title even tho I have read most of his history over and over again. Regardless of my personal affinity, u always do a compassionate job on difficult personas.
The guy was a terrific WORKER - he worked and worked until he was wealthy. He was also ingenious and a believer in cutting costs. The competition didn't stand a chance against him. Don't ever expect a wealthy man to be perfect.
@The Elapid King I can see that... but once your on top, you will do what ever it takes to stay on top!!! You don't make that kind of money by playing nice!
My grandfather was a Pullman Porter and was involved with A.Philip Randolph's movement to unionize the porters. I would love to see a video about A. Philip Randolph...and also one about those porters, who worked so, so hard for so little pay. I never knew that grandfather, who died of T.B. before I was born, but he got to travel the entire country, even meeting Will Rogers once. Rogers engaged him in a short conversation which he never forgot. A Will Rogers video would be great, too!
Carnegie is, in my opinion, the truest “chaotic good” you can get from a non-fictional character. While he did a lot of good things, his deeds weren’t all good, and he made his fortune with some… less than savoury practices that are definitely illegal today I think he’s chaotic good, my man has clearly defined and shaped a generation, helped many people even now, but clearly also took advantage of people and the law to get what he wanted
Growing up around the Pittsburgh,PA area I learned all about Carnegie and been in many of his buildings. I personally think of Carnegie as a great man.
They would send each other gifts at Xmas...Carnegie would receive a paper t-shirt from Rockefeller as a reminder of his humble beginnings and Carnegie would send Rockefeller, a lifelong tee-totaller a Bottle of Whiskey
Barbados was a British colony at the time, and the Andrew Carnegie Public Library, built with the donation given by Carnegie to the Barbados government, still exists here today.
Man your story telling skills are just phenomenal u can make even boring people’s lives interesting I don’t think iv ever failed to finish a video I started and that’s rare I’m adhd and have a very short attention span
“Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows people to attain uncommon results” Andrew Carnegie
Probably a little of both in terms of the public opinion. I think he was a great entrepreneur and philanthropist who understood Adam Smith better than most. Probably read Smith's second book.
....or even more, how both of those two vultures ruthlessly destroyed any other company in the oil and steel business. Those two men were the reason behind the Anti-Monopoly Laws passed in the early 20th Century.
In a shameless attempt to suck up to Carnegie and get funds for a library, a suburb of Melbourne Australia, Rosstown was renamed Carnegie - it failed to impress him and they got nothing....
Of course you have to remember, Carnegie believed that his workers would never spend money as well as he would, so didn’t think they should have it. Better that he should buy them a library. Judge that how you like, but it was his view.
Guy Harclerode classical, free market/capitalist economics generally presupposes that rational people will spend their money efficiently (the "invisible hand" The Theory of Moral Sentiment - Adam Smith 1759), but the Uber-capitalist here, took a paternalistic approach, more akin to the role of the state in a socialist system. I judge not the rights or wrongs, but simply point out the contradiction that drove a man to, on the one hand screw down his workers conditions and pay, and yet he spent almost all of his money on philanthropic endeavours.
How about one on Lord Robert Baden-Powell. Heard you mention him on Geographics and realized you hadn't done a bio on him yet. As an Eagle scout that would be awesome
Define: Philanthrophy. ... Take away everything, then give it back only where it suits you - to assuage your guilt, er reputation. Somehow I feel much better off, for psychopathy.
I wrote my long winded comment before i watched the video. I watched the entire video and im so happy that you actually talked about the Johnstown flood accurately.!! Great job on your documentary!! I know that Carnegie has done alot of good with his money. It just bothers me that most people aren't aware of the Johnstown flood which i believe was key in him becoming a philanthropist.
That awkward moment when you forget to talk about the letter he wrote in his twenties where he states his lifelong goal of using the first half of his life to gain as much money as possible and the second part giving it all away. Whoops. Just fuckin slipped right by.
Carnegie and Rockefeller built Amercia they are the reason the America are rich today and not poor like Brazil. Carnegie offerd thouse who did not have a job a job even if the job was not perfect it was better then nothing.
I'm from Brazil.The country is very rich however due to corruption all the wealth is wasted.Things are changing now,slowly but surely Brazil will be a great nation too :)
*leviticus was based on the "the commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt. There were several american nobilty at that time. The Astors, Russell's, Tafts, Bundy, Rockefellers honestly not much has changed Amazon and Bezos and people like Bill Gates aren't pioneers America has always had a 1% who lived as de facto rulers within our democratic republic.
Any chance of doing a BIO on the members of the Irish Rebellion, and the 7 signatories of the Irish proclamation? Also Michael Collins and Eamon Develara. Thanks
Don't normally notice the mispronunciations but pointing out how to say his surname correctly before saying 'Dun-firm-line' made me chuckle - especially for a Brit!
Without ruthless industrialists, your whole future would be that of a poor agricultural labourer, if you were lucky, and just forget electricity, TV or cars.
@@Simonsvids I'd be absolutely fine with that. I don't watch tv, and animal skins and fire made warmth available to humans for centuries, and how many lives would have not ended prematurely due to auto deaths?
@@frankday6422 You say you'd be fine with that but I bet you've never once worked on a farm, let alone lived a subsistence lifestyle. There's plenty of places in the world where you can live that life if you want it, normally governed by socialists. You're free to go to those places and live, if you like.
As a kid that got to go to the carnegie melon science institute on field trips, and now as a father who takes his kids their i can say his legacy outweighs his issues.
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I grew up going to a Carnegie Library as child and that inspired me to seek higher education and graduate studies. I know so many others whose youthful experiences in Carnegie libraries as nerdy scholars, motivated by the sheer size and scope of the collections, led them towards great careers and advancements. As father of the American library system his contribution just there was without scale or measure. Those libraries were the internet, iphone/Android, and Google to us all. Now being digitized, those books are giving back to younger researchers by the millions. Thank you Andy!
I grew up in Pittsburgh, you couldn’t not learn about him in elementary school. He solved his problems by hurling poor immigrants at them, but then he built libraries and museums and gave away his fortune; what a dichotomy.
Glad to hear that Andrew Carnegie helped you
Don’t forget Carnegie Hall, for a century, *the* venue where Classical and other musicians dream of performing!
Great biography!
This is where I've heard his name the most.
Andrew Carnegie the Great
1:15 - Chapter 1 - Early years
3:50 - Chapter 2 - Life in america
6:25 - Chapter 3 - Business during the civil war
7:40 - Mid roll ads
9:00 - Chapter 4 - A man of industry
10:50 - Chapter 5 - The billion dollar corporation
12:20 - Chapter 6 - High points & heartbreaks
13:45 - Chapter 7 - The johnstown flood
17:05 - Chapter 8 - The homestead strike
19:10 - Chapter 9 - Philanthropy
Thank you.
Mid roll adds? I had 3 ad breaks while watching.
Carnegie really thought through everything. He gave his heirs just enough to have a comfortable life, and the opportunity with that to prove themselves with the money he gave them. He never trusted charities because like most they're money wagons peddling to people's guilt while taking greater sum for themselves rather than those they represent.
He started his own charitable organizations... Thank God for Mr. Carnegie for his commitment to education & young people...
@Curious Bob yeah im ok with how he did it 👌. You going to blame a man for taking advantage of what was legal at the time? Because of the robber barons we got worker protections laws and regulations while the US became an industry juggernaut.
@@andrewespinoza7108 no sir. Andrew Carnegie let H.C. Frick set labor union in steel back 40 years. He only gave his fortune up because he felt intense guilt over his labor practices. He was a social Darwinist, an exploiter, an entrepreneur, a diplomat. Both of you are correct. He was a great and terrible man. Complex enough to not be reduced to a comments section. I highly recommend reading several biographies including his autobiography if you care to explore his mind.
Gates is doing the same
@@jackstraw522 I'm not a Gates fan, but I'll give credit where it's due.
Unlike many robber-baron 'philanthropists' today, Carnegie put his money into hospitals and libraries and so on, not political ideals.
I think Bill Gates is one of the exceptions. I'm sure there are good millionaires who don't want their donations to be publicised
In a way, that is giving money to a political ideal, namely a Liberal, caring attitude
@@acash93 follow the money. gates only invests in ways that ensure the money comes back to him tenfold. he is not an exception
Acash
Look it up how bill bought stock at $18 a share and sold at $300 between 2019 and 2021. Talk about insiiider trading.
@@TheGLaDOSvideoCorethat's just a straight up lie. I'm not saying he doesn't. Cause that's what an "investment" often is. He donates money and essentially gives it away on charity projects. Bill Gates is one of the most respectable men out there. Stop spreading blatant disinformation
Despite his vocal criticism of the wealthy, Mark Twain was friends with Andrew Carnegie. When people would say "How can you be friends with Carnegie? His money is tainted." Twain replied "That's right. Taint mine and taint yours."
Excellent! I admire Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie a lot
I love the fact that he gave money to Tuskegee Institute to help get it started. Booker T. Washington and him had a great relationship and their is a building named after him there.
Rockefeller was one of his opponents/peers.
Rockefeller also was a huge philanthropists. From what I've read, they competed with Each Other in that regard.
Read about eugenics. They both did a lot of damage to minorities.
@@marialiyubman go away
I learned to read in school.
My love for reading grew from my hometown library; Carnegie Public Library.
Now I see where my life went wrong, I should have met more wealthy people when I was a working child. For every Andrew Carnegie, you have countless others who didn't make those right connections, and struggled in poverty for the rest of their lives. Perhaps they got sick, and never recovered. Some of those could have been another industrialist like Carnegie, or a scientific genius like Einstein, but instead died young in the cycle of poverty.
It’s not what you know but who you know
@@FWMisc-xy37 it’s a combination of both
@@flyingwolffilms ....A dash of what a ton of who.
Human history is epic and great and I'm glad to be a part of it. Thank you
John D. Rockefeller, Sr. followed a similar trajectory. Born to a bigamous father and poor mother, he lived extremely frugally, became ruthless in business, becoming the “Moses of Oil,” and once he stepped back from Standard Oil, became a nice, likable grandfather who donated hundreds of millions of dollars, often anonymously.
Always Sunny has ruined the word “Philanthropist” for me.
Charlie: “I’m a fullonrapist”
And thats how i read the title of the video.
i think we may need to do an intervention on you for your illiteracy, dude.
Sue McQueen 😂
@@makeshift_battlefield_music I'm pretty sure the 1st reply followed. That's what mac says to Charlie as he struggles to read in Sunny
@@joshlewis575 lol
Everytime lol
Been to his house in high school, they turned it in museum, it’s fun learning more about someone from your home town
The downtown library in my city was originally built using Carnegie's funds, and much of the old building is still around today. It is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful buildings in the city of Columbus.
I'm from Pittsburgh where Carnegie earned much of his fortune, thanks for saying his name correctly!
A number of places are named after both Carnegie and Frick in this city. Definitely interesting people to learn about
Went on a university trip to Carnegie Hall years ago. What a ruthless & giving man!
Thank you for pronouncing his name correctly. As a Pittsburgher, it is a huge pet peeve when people mispronounce it.
a big name in American history, just like William T. Sherman, how about a video on him?
Xi Jinping I know
@@jakealter5504 then you are ready to finally become a Jedi.
I mean, the Johnstown flood was exasperated pretty badly by the fact that Johnstown is in the worst possible place to avoid flooding, since it's in the middle of a bowl. It even had another two big floods after the one related to Carnegie. Not to take away from the fact that it was the fault of the country club, but still.
I've read the witness plaques in Johnstown, will never forget the detail described of the horrors that happened before them. I remember some bodies were found all the way near Pittsburgh and one made it to Ohio.
Edit: Simon mentioned the Ohio body a few moments after writing.
*exacerbated
They don’t call us the flood city for nothing.
The flooda were in 1936 and 1977. The bodies washing up in Pittsburgh were the only any knew something bad had happened. The flood took out the telegraph lines.
My family lived in Johnstown during the flood (and still do). The stories passed down in family history are just horrible.
Frick was all about Management by the Numbers, and even though Carnegie had hired him to increase the profit margin, the only thing Frick cared about was the bottom line, whatever the cost. Eventually Carnegie had to dismiss Frick, and while he received a handsome severance for his shares of stock, the breakup was less than friendly and Frick's descendants still bear a grudge against Carnegie for portraying Frick as the bad guy. While their practices would be considered inhumane and illegal by todays standards, back then it was how the game was played and it was survival of the fittest. And Carnegie also held grudge against Rockefeller, who literally drove his mentor Scott into an early grave by unscrupulous deals in the railroad industry in which Scott had become heavily invested in. It was the best of times; It was the worst of times.
Forgot to mention the little idea of Frick’s called strike busting by hiring what can be described as thugs to beat and kill striking employees to scare others not to strike.
C Ray Starling Andrew did eventually make peace with Rockefeller during their twilight years
Our local library is one of the many he sunk his money into.
I do not think the world realised the impact of this man's philanthropic efforts. To tell u the truth, I have no words to crown this man for his impact on my life and the lives of many Guyanese. I took umbrage to the title even tho I have read most of his history over and over again. Regardless of my personal affinity, u always do a compassionate job on difficult personas.
Well done. He was also wrong in saying, "...not enough to improve their lot".
The guy was a terrific WORKER - he worked and worked until he was wealthy. He was also ingenious and a believer in cutting costs. The competition didn't stand a chance against him. Don't ever expect a wealthy man to be perfect.
A man who becomes wealthy is far from perfect! You have to be ruthless to climb to the top, and be even more ruthless to stay on the top!!!
@The Elapid King I can see that... but once your on top, you will do what ever it takes to stay on top!!! You don't make that kind of money by playing nice!
My grandfather was a Pullman Porter and was involved with A.Philip Randolph's movement to unionize the porters. I would love to see a video about A. Philip Randolph...and also one about those porters, who worked so, so hard for so little pay. I never knew that grandfather, who died of T.B. before I was born, but he got to travel the entire country, even meeting Will Rogers once. Rogers engaged him in a short conversation which he never forgot. A Will Rogers video would be great, too!
A little history of my hometown.
My town in Idaho has a Carnegie library. It is very nice and well built
Carnegie is, in my opinion, the truest “chaotic good” you can get from a non-fictional character.
While he did a lot of good things, his deeds weren’t all good, and he made his fortune with some… less than savoury practices that are definitely illegal today
I think he’s chaotic good, my man has clearly defined and shaped a generation, helped many people even now, but clearly also took advantage of people and the law to get what he wanted
Does anyone else think that Simon should go on Hot Ones?
This is gold
I just learned of Hot Ones 2 days ago... I guess I'm an out of touch old lady...
The rainstorm that caused the flood was probably as a result of the Krakatoa eruption temporarily altering the weather, over several years.
Julia Naylor probably
Henry Frick had the dam lowered and widened so he could get his carriage across this was the primary reason the dam failed
Simon: Explanation of how to say Carnagie correctly.
Also Simon: Butchers Dunfermline 3 seconds later.
Came on to see if anyone else had commented about that 😝
Haha, I know right, it's not even close !
Just what I thought. He read it as Dunfermilne.
Robber baron and great philanthropist are not mutually exclusive. In fact, as happened with Carnegie, the first enabled him to be the second.
Growing up around the Pittsburgh,PA area I learned all about Carnegie and been in many of his buildings. I personally think of Carnegie as a great man.
This man needs a narration fight VS Morgan freeman! We should be demanding that!
Your channel is simply awesome to know brief details about the past personalities. I'm enjoying this a lot. Thanks for the Gods work.
He had a business rivalry with Rockefeller.
And the rest.....
They would send each other gifts at Xmas...Carnegie would receive a paper t-shirt from Rockefeller as a reminder of his humble beginnings and Carnegie would send Rockefeller, a lifelong tee-totaller a Bottle of Whiskey
I am a tradesman for my local library system and get to take care of and refurbish 3 Carnegie library buildings. All were built between 1905 and 1909.
Barbados was a British colony at the time, and the Andrew Carnegie Public Library, built with the donation given by Carnegie to the Barbados government, still exists here today.
"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" Easy, take an Uber.
I have a Highlight History idea. Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, Ford, and Rockefeller during the 1900s. When industrialism took off.
In my late mother's home town in England there was a Carnegie library.
What town was that?
@@youtubeuser7798 Leicester or it could be the first town she lived in Birkenhead, I can't remember.
Pittsburgh, Glad to get this video
Maybe next do JP Morgan and some of the owners of the mining companies that became rich through the buyouts
Im sure he's done one on all that mate check the list. I've watched one on him and the multi buyouts of everything.
I used to work in a Carnegie library
Haha this guy was my history teacher's idol! He talked about him a lot haha what a guy,
Man your story telling skills are just phenomenal u can make even boring people’s lives interesting I don’t think iv ever failed to finish a video I started and that’s rare I’m adhd and have a very short attention span
“Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows people to attain uncommon results” Andrew Carnegie
The net endowment of the Corporation was $3.5bn in 2018, so they've been very busy giving it away!
AND NOW YOU ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT PRONOUNCIATION
He still got plenty of others wrong.
@@Calum_S Yeah, I noticed Pittsburgh.
DunfermLINE
hey you guess you missed him say dunfermline
I love Simon, but I wouldn't be surprised if he mispronounced words like water, metal, and dog.
He built libraries in New Zealand as well.
Probably a little of both in terms of the public opinion. I think he was a great entrepreneur and philanthropist who understood Adam Smith better than most. Probably read Smith's second book.
"Dunfermilne" - Simon, I am disappoint! lol
It's a crying shame that no one ever made a biopic about him starring Richard Attenborough.
Why was there nothing about his rivalry with John D. Rockefeller?
Yes. That was intriguing!
Who was richer
well it wasnt so much a rivalry as duel between conflicting interests. Now J.P. Morgan... now that was a vicious rivalry.
....or even more, how both of those two vultures ruthlessly destroyed any other company in the oil and steel business. Those two men were the reason behind the Anti-Monopoly Laws passed in the early 20th Century.
@@CptMoroni35 WOOOO!!! Theodore Roosevelt our best "socialist" president.
8:54 skip the ad
Wow yesterday would have been his 185th birthday... Happy Belated Birthday Mr. Carnegie...
In a shameless attempt to suck up to Carnegie and get funds for a library, a suburb of Melbourne Australia, Rosstown was renamed Carnegie - it failed to impress him and they got nothing....
Maybe you could do a vidro on George Westinghouse? Other good options would be Michael Faraday, Ursula K Le Guin and Alberto Santos-Dumont....
Of course you have to remember, Carnegie believed that his workers would never spend money as well as he would, so didn’t think they should have it. Better that he should buy them a library. Judge that how you like, but it was his view.
So you're saying the workers would have bought books instead of beers?
Guy Harclerode classical, free market/capitalist economics generally presupposes that rational people will spend their money efficiently (the "invisible hand" The Theory of Moral Sentiment - Adam Smith 1759), but the Uber-capitalist here, took a paternalistic approach, more akin to the role of the state in a socialist system. I judge not the rights or wrongs, but simply point out the contradiction that drove a man to, on the one hand screw down his workers conditions and pay, and yet he spent almost all of his money on philanthropic endeavours.
Why not both
Edit: dude was ruthless though same as Rockefeller
Explain how you would make it to his height of power without being a saint...
@@seanfarrellsullivanhasemotions tell that to the Pope's of antiquity
No mention of Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon???
How about one on Lord Robert Baden-Powell. Heard you mention him on Geographics and realized you hadn't done a bio on him yet. As an Eagle scout that would be awesome
Define: Philanthrophy.
... Take away everything, then give it back only where it suits you - to assuage your guilt, er reputation. Somehow I feel much better off, for psychopathy.
Enjoyed my Carnegie course!
Great times
My best friend from Dunfermline would have been appalled by your mispronunciation of the name of his home town
In no way should I give description for this video. Outlandish!
I wrote my long winded comment before i watched the video. I watched the entire video and im so happy that you actually talked about the Johnstown flood accurately.!! Great job on your documentary!! I know that Carnegie has done alot of good with his money. It just bothers me that most people aren't aware of the Johnstown flood which i believe was key in him becoming a philanthropist.
We have an old stone Carnegie library in my town, it’s not used anymore but it’s there.
Carnegie was so humble 😂 what an amazing lucky Scotsman
Just realised Scrooge McDuck is loosely based on Andrew Carnegie
The difference is that Scrooge was scrupulous--there were lines he refused to cross.
Why not both?!
I grew up with a Carnegie library. I still love it!
Simon how about the origin of HSBC and Jardine and Matheson ❤
You need to do a video on George Westinghouse.
He's already done one on Nikola Tesla. It only makes sense to do one on his boss.
That awkward moment when you forget to talk about the letter he wrote in his twenties where he states his lifelong goal of using the first half of his life to gain as much money as possible and the second part giving it all away. Whoops. Just fuckin slipped right by.
For me, this channel is the epitome of a love/hate relationship. On the one; such great content...
The way he says Dunfermline just shouldnt piss me off so much😃😂
OMG thats was terrible.
I made a face like i'd just heard someone run nails over a black board D:
Made me smile, it made Dunfermline sound exotic 😅😂
Love these vids watch two before work every morning
Carnegie and Rockefeller built Amercia they are the reason the America are rich today and not poor like Brazil.
Carnegie offerd thouse who did not have a job a job even if the job was not perfect it was better then nothing.
I'm from Brazil.The country is very rich however due to corruption all the wealth is wasted.Things are changing now,slowly but surely Brazil will be a great nation too :)
Now I see where red dead redemption to got inspiration for Leviticus Cornwall
That's actually Cornelius Vanderbilt.
*leviticus was based on the "the commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt. There were several american nobilty at that time. The Astors, Russell's, Tafts, Bundy, Rockefellers honestly not much has changed Amazon and Bezos and people like Bill Gates aren't pioneers America has always had a 1% who lived as de facto rulers within our democratic republic.
Rest in peace to all the workers who died making this man rich.
Any chance of doing a BIO on the members of the Irish Rebellion, and the 7 signatories of the Irish proclamation? Also Michael Collins and Eamon Develara. Thanks
This guy done everything by the rules he never cheated he never paid off a politician
Don't normally notice the mispronunciations but pointing out how to say his surname correctly before saying 'Dun-firm-line' made me chuckle - especially for a Brit!
When describing this man, "ruthless industrialist" was the most accurate of the whole video.
Without ruthless industrialists, your whole future would be that of a poor agricultural labourer, if you were lucky, and just forget electricity, TV or cars.
@@Simonsvids I'd be absolutely fine with that. I don't watch tv, and animal skins and fire made warmth available to humans for centuries, and how many lives would have not ended prematurely due to auto deaths?
@@frankday6422 You say you'd be fine with that but I bet you've never once worked on a farm, let alone lived a subsistence lifestyle. There's plenty of places in the world where you can live that life if you want it, normally governed by socialists. You're free to go to those places and live, if you like.
@@99EKjohn Yes, actually, I did grow up farming. I've butchered chickens and hogs. So, ask more questions before drawing conclusions.
@@frankday6422 Yea right, lie all you want, it's pretty obvious.
Ludwig van Beethoven, please.
Google says $1.20 in 1848 is about $39.09 today - 2019.
Per week
I worked at TIAA as a financial consultant for a few years.
Me upon reading the title of the video: Why not both?
Nice vid as always, Simon. Have you ever covered Victor Sassoon? Or 1920s-30s Shanghai?
Not gonna decide whether he was good or bad. I say he was both. Like all humans, he had potential for both good and bad.
As a kid that got to go to the carnegie melon science institute on field trips, and now as a father who takes his kids their i can say his legacy outweighs his issues.
Another great video!!! Thank you.
Do one on Ferdinand Porsche
I'm here cause of history class and have to watch this😑😑
Hey mate, Could you do a video on Daniel O'Connell? Great Irish man!
Great suggestion!
Do one on Aristotle Onassis
The problem with legacies is that their complex like human beings... Someone can be both a robber baron and a philanthropist