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People at the top started to believe that if you interfered by helping the poor or protecting minorities or providing social programs and economic aid, you were stopping nature from doing its job. Racism backed up by Social Darwinism as well (as was imperialism and colonialism): whites were on top, according to these racists, because natural selection had chosen them to be on top

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David Ricardo in the “iron law of wages” argued  that raising wages would only increase the working population, and the availability of more workers would in tum cause wages to fall, thus creating a cycle of misery and starvation

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eugenics movement emerged, which advocated scientific breeding of people (and promoted sterilization for those who weren’t on top, including ethnic minorities, and mentally disabled people – half the states had eugenics laws, and eugenics reinforced racism and segregation as well)

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Cultural and intellectual arguments justified the success of those at the top of the socioeconomic structure as both appropriate and inevitable, even as some leaders argued that the wealthy had some obligation to help the less fortunate 

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Cultural and intellectual arguments justified the success of those at the top of the socioeconomic structure as both appropriate and inevitable, even as some leaders argued that the wealthy had some obligation to help the less fortunate 

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Philosopher Herbert Spencer was the head of a movement that believed that Darwin's  ideas  of natural selection and survival of the fittest should be applied to the marketplace.  He believed that concentrating wealth in the hands of the belief was good for all.  Additionally,  Professor William Graham Sumner said helping  the  poor  was  misguided  because it interfered  with  the  laws  of nature and  would  only  weaken the  evolution  of the  species  by preserving  the unit.

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The Gospel of Wealth created a new mindset for the wealthy in the United States. By giving to the poor through philanthropy and public service, Carnegie created a sense of duty in the middle and upper classes. This also aided in greater education in America through the building of schools.