“In the commercial world similar causes have produced similar results, and the race is benefited thereby. The poor enjoy what the rich could not afford. What were the luxuries have become the necessaries of life. The laborer has now more comforts than the landlord had a few generations ago.”
Andrew Carnegie when writing this essay was trying to have those people then understand the societies need help from the rich. The money given by the rich to the poor needed to have a certain direction and the wealthy needed to make sure that the money they were distributing should go exactly where it was needed. The money distributed should reach the communities in a way that would benefit those who should be receiving it; the government should not be involved, as they were not to be trusted. Carnegie believed in taxing the rich when they died, in order to benefit the poor, instead of it being left to their heirs who already were wealthy, they should use it to better the communities. The quote is simply saying that back then there was a boom in the society, that allowed the poor to enjoy as much as what the rich could, that the things that were once a luxury became a necessity. Generations have changed there for so had comfort levels, and now laborers where prospering.
I can relate this quote to society today, then the economy seemed to be well, in today’s economy things are very complex. The rich are still the ones with the power and all the wealth, and unlike then they do not share with the communities. There for the poor can barely afford the necessities, never mind being able to obtain any luxuries. There is very little comfort and the labors remain such. There has been a shift, where the wealth is obtain by very few in this American society. The essay, talks about distribution, maybe that should be implemented in today’s society and, not saying it would fix the problem, but maybe it can bring about some change.
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