Ooft.Wonder if all the supporter buses got up from Glasgow and are now turning back...

You are gonna have to update your photo with lots of empty desks looking disappointed....

I did not. I am still not entirely convinced by him and his so called lofty ideals. FB was set up to perv women and spent eye watering amounts of money a VR with avatars that has no legs. All that money could of been spent on something tangible to benefit the whole society.

The rich back then remembered the revolutions & the guillotines.
They had a healthy fear of this & channeled that into an ancient concept of “noblesse oblige”; “We get all the stuff but we give you other things to make YOUR tiny lives better.” 1/

Oh I knew he was ruthless, a lot of the Victorian guys were awful. Using their workforces as practical slaves was common. He did come from poverty and that most of been a driver in that. Most of these current Billionaires all come from inherited money or money given to them by other rich nobs.

Agree with everything you said. I studied a bit of Econ Hist at Uni and while mostly European we touched on USA. Lively debates about rich society pulling up the economic drawbridge etc.. the bit I read about AC was he did want to give it all away. He came from poverty + Victorian guilt.

I know that use Andrew Carnegie far too much, but he was super rich and what did he do? He build libraries, funded schools and hospitals. I believe some of the funds he set up are still doing stuff today.