Global Agenda: Wanted: Giver barons | Jerusalem Post

Global Agenda: Wanted: Giver barons | Jerusalem Post: "Global Agenda: Wanted: Giver barons
By PINCHAS LANDAU
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Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller and the other mega-tycoons who rose to prominence in late 19th century America were not renowned for being pleasant, friendly people. Their appealing sobriquet, 'the Robber Barons,' was hard-earned and justly awarded. But, having amassed their huge fortunes in whatever way they did and, perhaps in recognition of the ineluctable fact that even they would not be able to take the money with them, they determined to use some of their wealth for leaving their marks on posterity. Hence the foundations, museums and other cultural and educational institutions that carry their names, down to the present."