The Richest Man In The World: The Ugly Truth

The Richest Man In The World: The Ugly Truth

Andrew Carnegie Documentary: How does a boy born into poverty become the richest man in the world?

Andrew Carnegie is the personification of the American Dream; an extraordinary rise from the very bottom to the absolute financial top.

However, I must warn you: there are two different sides to Andrew Carnegie.

On the one hand, Andrew Carnegie was a hypocrite - he preached about workers rights publicly, and yet privately he slashed his workers wages, significantly increased their working hours, and essentially exploited his staff as slave labour in barbaric dangerous conditions to build his fortune.

Carnegie destroyed unions, and his actions resulted in countless unnecessary brutal deaths - for example the tragedy of Homestead.