What made andrew carnegie a robber baron?

Question

I need to write an essay, please help.

Answer 1

Carnegie paid low wages. That helped make him rich.

"Since this is a Carnegie Endowment publication, I should pause here for an aside: among the chief of the robber barons was Andrew Carnegie, the turn-of-the-last-century steelmaster who dominated American heavy industry and who subsequently established the Carnegie Endowment to promote world peace--to try to work toward a world in which Ministers of Foreign Affairs would cease to think of bombs and bullets and think, instead, of trade and dialogue. Like most of the robber barons, Carnegie was a mass of contradictions--as if he was not one but three or four different people at once"

Answer 2

Revisionist history.

Answer 3

People who accepted low pay and then complained it was not fair made him out to be a robber baron.  Carnegie never held a gun to anyone's head to work for him, they all did so willingly.  They had strikes and came to agreements from time to time as well, but never did he physically take anything from anyone without their full consent - which is what would be required to be a robber.

Socialists will claim he was unfair to pay such low wages while making profits that made him one of the richest men in history; yet these same socialists willingly overlook that no better paying jobs existed for these people (otherwise they would have taken them instead) nor did any of those working establish better run businesses.  Had Carnegie not been in business, those same employees would have been working for less somewhere else or just been unemployed.  

Shame on Carnegie for making lots of money...pahleeeeze.