Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "From Plato to Hitler: The Ideological Origins of National Socialism" video.

1:00 damn right out of Andrew Carnegie's mouth. Wiki on him "During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away around $350 million (roughly $5.9 billion in 2022),[6] almost 90 percent of his fortune, to charities, foundations and universities" One of the Richest men in American history. In fact his charity allowed a lot of colleges to operate for generations without much funding. To me he is the ideal Capitalist. Favorite quotes below. “No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.” “The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.” “The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.” Carnegie believed a first half of a man's life was to pursue wealth. Being he believed you couldn't take that wealth with you, he decided by the end of his life he would give most of it away before he died. He left enough behind for his family primarily wife to live a modest life. He didn't believe in giving money to his son either, the believed his son had to earn his own wealth.
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@TheImperatorKnight "If a man dies poor he has failed. If he dies rich, he has created substantial wealth for society, which is why he died rich." I think you took his quote out of context a bit. When he said "The man who dies rich, dies disgraced." he was talking about someone who is wealthy who dies with that wealth. Not someone who is poor who dies poor. He is implying that he views it a responsibility that someone who has as much wealth as he did, to give back to the community later in their lives. If they die with that wealth in tact, it should be viewed as a disgrace. I don't think he believed in inheritance definitely when you're as rich as he was. As I stated he gave away about 90% of his wealth, but still left a lot for his family to live on after his death. But when ti came to the insane amount of wealth he accumulated in his life, he deemed it wasn't necessary to make it ALL inheritance so was in a rush during the last years of his life building schools, libraries, hospitals and setting up funds.
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@TheImperatorKnight Why many lords, and royalty have gone bankrupt as well despite having vast wealth even only a few generations ago. This is why he was also said to have said that Carnegie would rather damn his son than give him a dollar. He believed his son needed to earn his own money.
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The fact I read a comment on TIK's Don't be Daft Union video in which someone said his points didn't matter because "Material Reality" just rings home how people are still part of this religion til this day.
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