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Which two entrepreneurs believed they were examples of social Darwinism at work?

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Andrew Carnegie and Cecile Rhodes

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social theory. Social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.

Many Social Darwinists embraced laissez-faire capitalism and racism. They believed that government should not interfere in the “survival of the fittest” by helping the poor, and promoted the idea that some races are biologically superior to others.

Andrew Carnegie and Cecile Rhodes believed that the inequality that inevitably resulted from industrial capitalism was not inherently bad. Competition in society, as in the natural world, sorted people out according to their abilities.

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It would be "Andrew Carnegie" and "Cecile Rhodes" that believed they were examples of social Darwinism at work, since they felt it was not only their right but their duty to take what they could from society. 
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