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street_sweeper
To some, Carnegie represents the idea of the American dream. He was an immigrant from Scotland who came to America and became successful. He is not only known for his successes but his enormous amounts of philanthropist works, not only to charities but also to promote democracy and independence to colonized countries
Carnegie also made his fortune by insider trading to start in the steel industry by getting tips about the railroad while he worked there. He did revolutionize the open hearth melting process though and improved upon it to where you could mass produce steel products. He also was as anti union as it gets and to this day union employees won't step foot inside any building bearing his name because of it. He did regret the decision to use the pinkertons to try and quell the uprising at his mill and it split his friendship with henry frick and caused him great pain until the day he died.
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