Gilded Age

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

the rich and the poor, too many were poor and just a few were extremely rich. He described the wealth as some kind of infection, He thought that we were losing the liberty that we earned by falling into corruption trying to be wealth. Demarest mentioned that many rules were established to avoid the acts of corruption by the monopolies leaders, but they had not too much success an all remained the same. According to henry Demarest who said "if our civilization is destroyed , it will not be by, barbarians from below" (50) to refer that these businessman who owned these powerful corporations were the ones who will destroy the society .Henry Demarest stated that "monopoly is business at the end of its journey", he said this because he was thinking that this business where lacking on transparency and loyal principles by part of the wealthy businessmen who were hungry for luxury and power. He criticized the system by complaining about how it is supposed to be perfect in theory but it ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

more necessaries during this age by comparing what the past generations had and what newer generations were able to afford, he mentioned that there were just a few of wealth people for a reason, the less wealth people were, the most powerful they could be, this means that they could be able to make bigger changes for the benefit of all. He truly believed in always doing something good for society, he thought that the best way to really help society was to give them the spaces to develop a high cultural environment such as libraries, museums, and parks instead of wasting the money in worthless charities . This is the opinion of one the best businessman the earth has known. In this ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: