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Today's plutocrats should be looking to people like Carnegie for inspiration.
He didn't pay to put his name on one or two libraries in influential universities, he paid to set up a national system of libraries which any person could walk into and make use of.
Why haven't any of our tycoons stepped up to create a national system of community centers, makerspaces, etc? I'll give you three guesses.
The obvious response is: "do it, you won't."
They might scare the new grads with that sort of talk, but we've seen what happens when you outsource jobs with the sole aim of saving money.
Those of us old enough to remember those times, also have a special rate for helping to clean up projects which started that way. It's usually somewhere in the 200-500% range.
It's from a hymn describing the environmental destruction of the industrial revolution:
And did those feet in ancient time \ Walk upon England’s mountains green? \ And was the holy Lamb of God \ On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine \ Shine forth upon our clouded hills? \ And was Jerusalem builded here \ Among these dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold: \ Bring me my arrows of desire: \ Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! \ Bring me my chariot of fire.
I will not cease from mental fight, \ Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand \ Till we have built Jerusalem \ In England’s green and pleasant land.