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David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social |
Worth noting Carnegie did this when faced with massive strikes and growing radical movements around the country. 1886 was the same year as Haymarket. His business partner/enforcer was literally shot by an anarchist. Public libraries are great but he and his ilk funded them because they were scared.
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Giovanni Tiso
@gtiso.bsky.social
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Hiring strike-breakers while building libraries remains a very strong combo.
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Topher
@greenfret.bsky.social
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Not noting that Carnegie's prior actions resulted in an arming of his factory and the deaths of a dozen or more people seems a bit disingenuous. His business partner sent armed mercenaries (Pinkertons) against his factories workers, and then National Guard troops.
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John DeCock
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The libraries he funded were closed on Sundays, the only day working people had off.
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strawberry garfield
@bbburgerrr.bsky.social
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and he wanted self-improvement in order to create an aspirational managerial class, rather than class-conscious workers who might unionize or otherwise engage in collective action!
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Foster DILF
@thebeernerd.bsky.social
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You’re not wrong but that still makes him better than today’s ultra wealthy, who see similar unrest and are dead set on continuing to give us jackshit
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Margueriteathome
@margueriteathome.bsky.social
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Guilt over the Johnstown Flood was a factor too.
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D4rkong
@d4rkong.bsky.social
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Sounds like a good reason to make rich assholes afraid again.
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Dr Emma L Briant
@emmalbriant.bsky.social
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They would defund AI if they thought it helped us think.
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Assignment Understander
@90sslowjamz.bsky.social
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The bourgeoisie can’t help but give the proletariat the tools of their own destruction.
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Carl Nyberg
@carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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Shoot more billionaires.
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Virginia S. O'Possum
@virginiaopossum.bsky.social
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I really need to be braver about actions that scare oligarchs.
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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇
@gpetrick.bsky.social
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Frick, Frick, Frick
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Ashton
@ashtonk.bsky.social
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Also a dynamic with 20th century unions; business leaders saw it as a useful bulwark against communist uprisings after the Great Depression.
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Elly
@ellyzoe.bsky.social
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Yep, it’s was his “Gates Foundation” for reputation laundering.
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Hanukkahtastrophe
@hanukkahtastrophe.bsky.social
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I would like more billionaires to be frightened into doing good things for other people.
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maggie savarino
@magimura.bsky.social
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so how do we make this lot more scared so the fund libraries? *sip*
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goblinesque
@murielcook.bsky.social
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We need to make the rich afraid enough to start funding public goods again (and then keep going)
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War Hater
@rainbowbody.bsky.social
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But saved by the ghost of his dead daughter Martha, as he told story. 1892 and Homestead strike
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Georgia Pritchett
@puffin902.bsky.social
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I never realized one of the most useful classes I'd take to understand United States in the 2020s would be the high school history class America 1850-1920. (And reading The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman helped)
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Malaclypse the Fetus
@omfproductions.bsky.social
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Every bit of charity from Carnegie, Rockefeller, and all the rest was basically them trying to bribe their way out of angry mobs coming for them. Guess we need to bring back the angry mobs if we want billionaires to stop fucking around.
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Beth
@thisbethlife.bsky.social
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Rich guys were never the good guys
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Benderdict Cumbenderbatch
@benderdict.bsky.social
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Make All Gazillion-aires Afraid Again
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Sensible Archie
@sensiblearchie.bsky.social
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Carnegie endowed a trust in his name that is still doing a lot of really good things to this day. I'm not buying that he gave so much because he was scared. *full disclosure, at one stage I worked with (not for) Carnegie Trust on projects to improve social housing.
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Julia S.
@booktweeting.bsky.social
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yeah, the libraries are very nice, but not handing him anything
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I Don’t Want No Scabs
@missedith.bsky.social
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lol for real but also I like my Carnegie library. I’m in a red state and they are keeping all the gay content on the shelves. Anyway. Make billionaires afraid again
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mcoorlim
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Another great example of direct action resulting in real material change!
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Samantha L. Barrett
@slbarrett87.bsky.social
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In Pittsburgh, we always say he built a library in every neighborhood he screwed over. There are a lot of Carnegie libraries in the city. Tangentially, Frick's house is very nice and open for tours. His daughter Helen gave away a lot of his fortune after he died to salvage the Frick name.
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Shark Queen (ravenous)
@seransdell.bsky.social
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Oh, so THIS was the “good old days”
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Jennifer Griffin Graham
@jgriffingraham.bsky.social
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Maybe we should scare some more of them and see what we get out of it
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mmmm, paint chips
@shamr0cker.bsky.social
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He was buying us off
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