HIST 199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ellen Gates Starr, Christian Ethics, Hull House
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Ways to deal with the poverty: natural- believes that there are people who are just better, only people who have excess amounts of wealth will have the sources to invest in speculative adventures. Carnegie proposed that the best way of dealing with the new phenomenon of wealth inequality was for the wealthy to redistribute their surplus means in a responsible and thoughtful man. Those people who were rich were obligated to spend their money. The last thing that a rich person should do is to leave their money for their kids (spend it all before you die) How you spend it- should be spent on things that encourage self improvement (carnegie opposed food pantries, things like that) Individuals who are well off must be engaged. Must recruit poor people into the faith of christianity: government public support. Public relief: need to have a government that is equality powerful to the. Progressives and the social gospel movement (november 2, 2015)
