Social Darwinism is, to be summed up, survival of the fittest. An ideal that talks about natural selection and how whoever or whatever can best adapt to its environment will survive and be able to pass along its genes to its offspring. In this article, a form of Social Darwinism exists which is much 'softer'. Instead of adapting to environment, the people need to adapt to their economy. Carnegie stresses that the distribution of wealth is so unbalanced, that the gap between the rich and the poor is a spectrum into two different worlds. Carnegie believes that this is a privilege that the few wealthy are able to have. However, he states three different ways that the wealth should be distributed: give money to family when the person has died, give money to state once the person has died, or while the person is still alive, give money around to different places. The first two have flaws: the first, leaving the remaining wealth to the family, has been seen as a burden to the family. The 2nd causes the money to be reused, but wasted at the same time because it is not put into the correct places. However, the 3rd is the smartest because the "owner" get to choose where to put it and this often creates a better community and economy. Carnegie continues on that spending money on very expensive and unnecessary items only hurts the economy, and those with the wealth should be spending it n a way that promotes capitalism and a better stimulated economy. Basically, instead of putting the job of stimulating the economy into the governments hands, Carnegie suggests a laissez-faire policy in which it is the job of the wealthy to keep the economy going.
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