Carnegie "Wealth" Essay

       The author states, "We assemble thousands of operatives in the factory, in the mine, and in the counting-house, of whom the employer can know little or nothing, and to whom the employer is little better than a myth." I agree with what the author says about the employers knowing little to nothing about the employees, and the employees knowing little to nothing about the employers. The author also says in the article, "All intercourse between them is at an end. Rigid Castes are formed, and, as usual, mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust." I agree with the author. I believe that people don't have trust in each other when they don't know one another.
      "Beside this, it may fairly be said that no man is to be extolled for doing what he cannot help doing, nor is he to be thanked by the community to which he only leaves wealth at death. Men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all, had they been able to take it with them." I disagree with this quote because I don't think men who leave vast sums after their death would not have left it at al, had they been able to take it with them. This may be true in some men, but I don't think it is true in all men. Some men may not just want to receive the praise of their donation while they are alive, or they have some other explanation or reasoning.