这就是安德鲁·卡内基的目标。在发家致富很久以前，他就立下了要把巨额财富捐出去的志向。他在《财富的福音》（The Gospel of Wealth）中阐述了自己的慈善哲学，这里有篇总结：http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html
That was Andrew Carnegie's goal. Way before becoming rich he had a goal to give away mass sums of money. He wrote about his philanthropic philosophy in The Gospel of Wealth, summarized here: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html
> I wouldn't call things like the giving pledge "business as usual" in big philanthropy. I can't think of any prior art for it. Andrew Carnegie, in The Gospel of Wealth, railed against inheritance and said, "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced". He advised fellow millionaires of his era to donate their fortunes during their lifetime to activities that would create…
Sounds like people are starting to take Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" to heart (although I guess Page would only be going half way). It's kind of exciting actually - I think this is the first time in history where enough wealthy people are going that route that we can…
Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth[1] lies squarely in the center of the foundational belief that those who've acquired such means have done so because they reflect "the highest type of man, the best and most valuable of all that humanity…
…improve their popularity through PR and philanthropy. Some of the industrialists themselves were even conflicted about the role of extreme wealth in society, which motivated writings like Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth", in which he argued that the wealthy had an obligation to spend their wealth to improve society through philanthropy, and ought not to either spend it purely on personal luxury, or to keep it and produce…
…benefitted, but they preferred redistribution managed by the monopoly capitalists themselves in the form of philanthropy, which they felt they would be able to thoughtfully manage (Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth is representative of this view).
这就是安德鲁·卡内基的目标。在发家致富很久以前，他就立下了要把巨额财富捐出去的志向。他在《财富的福音》（The Gospel of Wealth）中阐述了自己的慈善哲学，这里有篇总结：http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html
That was Andrew Carnegie's goal. Way before becoming rich he had a goal to give away mass sums of money. He wrote about his philanthropic philosophy in The Gospel of Wealth, summarized here: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html
> 我可不会把像 Giving Pledge 这样的举措称作大慈善事业中的“常规操作”。我想不出这在以前有什么先例。安德鲁·卡内基在《财富的福音》中痛斥遗产继承制度，并写道：“死时依旧富有的人，死得可耻。”他建议同时代的百万富翁们在生前将财富捐赠给能创造……的事业。
> I wouldn't call things like the giving pledge "business as usual" in big philanthropy. I can't think of any prior art for it. Andrew Carnegie, in The Gospel of Wealth, railed against inheritance and said, "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced". He advised fellow millionaires of his era to donate their fortunes during their lifetime to activities that would create…
看来大家开始真正把卡内基的《财富的福音》听进去了（虽然我觉得佩奇可能只做了一半）。这其实挺让人振奋的——我认为这在历史上还是第一次有足够多的富豪走这条路线，以至于我们能够……
Sounds like people are starting to take Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" to heart (although I guess Page would only be going half way). It's kind of exciting actually - I think this is the first time in history where enough wealthy people are going that route that we can…
安德鲁·卡内基的《财富的福音》[1] 正好处在这样一种底层观念的核心：那些获得了巨额财富的人之所以能做到，是因为他们代表了“最高等级的人类，是全人类中最优秀、最宝贵的存在……
Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth[1] lies squarely in the center of the foundational belief that those who've acquired such means have done so because they reflect "the highest type of man, the best and most valuable of all that humanity…
……通过公关和慈善来提升自己的名声。有些实业家自己甚至也对巨额财富在社会中的角色感到矛盾，这也促成了像安德鲁·卡内基的《财富的福音》这样的著作问世。他在书中主张，富人有义务通过慈善将财富用于改善社会，而不应该要么纯粹挥霍在个人奢靡上，要么留存下来造成……
…improve their popularity through PR and philanthropy. Some of the industrialists themselves were even conflicted about the role of extreme wealth in society, which motivated writings like Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth", in which he argued that the wealthy had an obligation to spend their wealth to improve society through philanthropy, and ought not to either spend it purely on personal luxury, or to keep it and produce…
……受益，但他们更倾向于由垄断资本家自己以慈善的形式来主导财富再分配，他们觉得这样自己能够深思熟虑地进行管理（安德鲁·卡内基的《财富的福音》就是这种观点的代表）。
…benefitted, but they preferred redistribution managed by the monopoly capitalists themselves in the form of philanthropy, which they felt they would be able to thoughtfully manage (Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth is representative of this view).