bill pulte mirrors Andrew Carnegie’s steel-born philanthropy, but this time the charity is viral cash giveaways on X.
Just as the 19th-century industrialist transformed his ruthless wealth into thousands of free public libraries, Pulte’s modern-day “giveaway trains” repurpose his online influence into spontaneous, direct deposits to strangers’ bank accounts. Carnegie’s libraries were a top-down promise of self-improvement; Pulte’s tweets are a bottom-up lottery of survival. Both men weaponize a fortune to rewrite their legacies in real time—except now, the “library” fits in your phone, and the check clears before the next scroll.