Mini Debate

Mini Debate Student’s Name Professor’s Name Institutional Affiliations Course Name and Number Due Date Mini Debate This week’s readings introduced the Gilded Age’s dynamics and influential industrialists of the time, including John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan. Discussions revealed that key aspects of wealth accumulation approaches and how these tycoons used their wealth determined whether one attracted negative or positive societal labelling. As a result, while John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie fit within the captains of industry categorization, J.P. Morgan emerges as a robber baron. Learning about John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie reveals that they were philanthropists despite critics questioning some aspects of their wealth accumulation. Such a people-helping practice aligns with the description of captains of industry individu...