When he died he had $310 billion.

Visited the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with Sarah today. Apparently people like to leave cash on Andrew Carnegie's grave. Because if there's anyone you should be giving money to, it's a dead rich person.

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  • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Not doing a bit, you're 100% fine and correct to just take that money. Fixing your house, paying a bill, buying ice-cream, giving it to someone else or whipping the coins at the head of a passing executive are all better uses.

    • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Sometimes I stop and think about how the world’s largest economy just stopped being able to be distribute such a widely used denomination of currency last year, has shown no signs of solving the problem and no one seems to think it as odd.

      :yea:

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        just stopped being able to be distribute such a widely used denomination of currency last year

        Have we not been able to distribute quarters? I haven't heard about that.

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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          3 years ago

          Yep. That was the coin shortage, which apparently hasn't really been fixed. We had a shortage of $50 notes in Canada due to hoarding, but that was sort of a temporary thing as people started carrying more cash on them at a given time. It's long been fixed.

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Idiots would rather do this than give money to a homeless person.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Don't worry, I'm sure some of the local homeless know this is a spot for an easy pay day.

  • Notcontenttobequiet [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This has the same energy as your coworker that says "see you tomorrow, unless I win the lottery" every single day.

  • Vncredleader
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    3 years ago

    it should be moved to Pittsburgh, we can give him the treatment he gave our people in Homestead

  • newmou [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I left an NFT on his grave when I went by, which is better since no one can remove since it's locked into the blockchain

  • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If someone wrote this in a story about the US, they would say the allegory is too on the nose.

    • newmou [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You'll be Carnegie's ghost, collecting on the debt we all have for the Atlas burden he so thanklessly assumed