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...and kept thousands of workers in poverty despite the massive success of his company through monopolistic business practices, killed a few workers putting down a strike, and built a country club that damaged a dam, causing a flood that killed upward of 2000 people.

Donations are nice, but it's not obvious to me that Carnegie was a net positive (or Gates or Musk, for that matter).



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