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Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist? Please! He was the original robber-baron, whose workers lived in the most miserable conditions imaginable while making him rich beyond belief. His 'philanthropy' apparently did not extend to the people he so willingly exploited - which makes sense, given that the whole enterprise was his method of simultaneously assuaging his guilt and ensuring his immortality. And btw, I am Scottish born and bred, and grew up 12 miles from his birthplace - he was always held up in school as some kind of role-model, something which even a twelve year-old could see through.
There are Scots we can and should be proud of - Watt, Bell, Logie-Baird, Fleming, Burns - even Adam Smith. Carnegie is not one of them.
