He did that because he used and abused people to create his wealth and was trying to buy forgiveness

He was a robber baron. His "fortune" didn't just miraculously happen. Please educate yourself before you repost someone else's stupidity.

Under threat of higher taxes. It wasn't until after Congress started talking about higher taxes that he started his donations.

YES, and my town has one of those WONDERFUL buildings … yet, our city is just letting it fall into ruins, while they WASTE our tax dollars on soooo many dumb things, far too many to even mention‼️‼️ I AM FURIOUS ABOUT IT🤬

Now Musk, the current richest man in the world, wants people to stop funding Wikipedia to destroy this amazing learning tool. Wikipedia is the next iteration of democratizing access to knowledge which Carnegie championed. Musk is not only the richest person on Earth, he is also the most selfish, self-centred, narcissist. Visiting the Vancouver Carnegie library and museum was a life changing highlight in my life during the 1950’s.https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/pages/34_carnegie.aspx