Social Darwinism In Carnegie's Wealth

Wealth, well wealth is a very complex thing to really comprehend under any circumstances. There are many ideas about what wealth really is, but wealth can mean different many things to people. However this does not mean that all of the ideas don’t really mean anything; they do but those ideas will have an effect in day to day life, the economy and social ideas. For instance in Carnegie’s Wealth he makes it a point to pin point certain things in society that have caused it change rapidly, and the influence they have had in the ever changing society of his time. Because of how Carnegie became this wealthy industrialist he seems to believe in the whole idea of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel which was pretty common for people like him. He seems to believe in the notion of, if you hope to achieve something you must work for it, it will not be handed to you a silver platter. This however does not mean that he believed any less of all the lower and middle class people. He does after all become a philanthropist, he does give his opinion on how wealthy people should try to do acts of charity. He also makes it a point to talk about how suddenly people who had all these luxuries now no longer had them, and now low
and middle class people had these luxuries. All around Carnegie gives a very solid and very thought out speech/document, on the way one should administer his/her wealth, the ever changing society, tough choices employers face, impact they all have on other people and the way people should use their wealth for good. In the life of an average coal miner, it really ties into with many of the things Carnegie believes but not in the sense of the whole Social Darwinism and Social Gospel, it’s more of them (meaning the working people) wanting to one day become wealthy.
The coal miner starts his speech/document with how a young boy begins his day and how he prepares for the long treacherous work day filled with raw and excruciating conditions. He also makes it a point to talk about how when they first start out as breaker boy he already has ambitions of becoming something higher than what he is now. The dreams of these boy’s is to one day be a coal miner and get paid lots to one day become a wealthy person, and thorough hard work they will one day be
achieved. In this way these to speeches/document share similarities because they both talk about how if one wishes to become some one important or wealthy you must already have that hunger that want to be willing to achieve that goal.