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Maken • yesterday at 8:41 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Who cares? The entire university was named after the first guy who handed them money. It's their oldest tradition.


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t0mpr1c3 • yesterday at 9:23 PM

IIRC Carnegie was the original archetype of the rapacious union-busting wage-suppressing monopolistic billionaire robber baron, and Mellon was all that plus a corrupt self-dealing all-but-impeached laissez-faire Treasury-secretary-cum-megabanker whose deflationary and protectionist response to the Wall Street Crash caused unemployment and destitution on a historic scale.

But yeah this Griffin guy could give the place a bad name. (Full disclosure, I did a postdoc at the SCS.)

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