What makes a modern industrialist? A few things: First off, they are entrepreneur, creators, active, both in the digital economy and within their local communities. They are investors and through their work teachers and mentors as well. They develop an ecosystem of businesses around them to create ample profits not only for themselves, but the tribe they gather around them. Modern industrialists, are entrepreneurs who look at technology and see the good that it can bring to the community. They look at trends like Globalization, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence with hopeful caution. Knowing that with every great innovation and advantage a new problem will arise, they push their tribe to progress. Modern Industrialists automate, delegate, eliminate their work to be done rather than hustling through *(shoutout to **Modern Industrialist #4 - Will Christensen** - who hosts a show with the same name*). If they can't automate it. They try to outsource it, and if they can't outsource it they delegate to their team. If that does work, they'll ask "do we need to do this" and then eliminate or advance accordingly. Modern Industrialists understand that the pursuit of knowledge, and the spreading of that knowledge to help others, is in itself a pure motivation. They take that motivation and they turn it into momentum, becoming the engine for the ecosystem, built around them. They bring on apprentices, alongside employees, to help build the next generation. Modern Industrialists give back. > "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." \- Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in America, bigger than even Rockefeller. He was the greatest industrialist of his age, and one of the greatest philanthropists as well. He would not have been happy with the way we spend and earn our wealth today. > This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and after doing so to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. \- Andrew Carnegie Modern Industrialists understand that they're just holding onto their wealth for the moment. The same applies to their knowledge. Modern Industrialists become creators, entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and teachers so that they can give it all away in their lifetime. Modern Industrialists find fulfillment in the full cycle of the great game that is Capitalism. They see that with not even 20% of the world online, that game has only just begun. A Modern Industrialist could be in South Africa, Nigeria, Dubai, Vladivostok, Shanghai, Singapore, or St Louis. They can be anywhere in the world, so long as they make the choice to help build a better world, to build a stronger bridge between where they stand in the physical realm and where their money resides in the digital.