Andrew Carnegie's perspective on the relationship between the rich and the poor is quite simple. He believed that there would always be rich and poor and that was a characteristic of the advancement of civilization. "Much better this great irregularity than universal squalor," he says (Carnegie 225). Without this difference between the classes, he believed that we would not be as well situated as far as universal wealth as we are today. He further stated that the "millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor" (Carnegie 230). He obviously believed that wealth was a necessity of life. He worked his whole life to be rich, but he was not a mi