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Compare And Contrast The Gilded Age And Freedom For The Wealth

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Freedom for the wealth compared to freedom for the poor was huge difference in the Gilded Age. Like I mentioned above there was few people who accumulated a lot wealth but by doing so took jobs away from the poor and middle class. Andrew Carnegie believed that he had the responsibility to advance the society by giving some of his money to the communities to build libraries which also helped some of the poor to have jobs, but working under Carnegie meant that you would work everyday with two twelve-hour shifts. So yes you had a job, but the job didn’t come with good terms. Even having a job that you worked two twelve-hour shifts doesn’t mean that you would become wealthy, wealthy only came to those who were business men and had the access to
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