Andrew Carnegie and J P Morgan have some coffee and dish about their lives

A bad history skit typed by Amber

In which J P Morgan seems like a colossal dork and Carnegie seems rude

MORGAN: You're making the right decision.

CARNEGIE: I know. To tell the truth, Continuing to dominate an industry doesn't seem important now. But do you know how I got where I am today? It's a real rags to riches story. As a matter of fact, I was vital in the establishment of the national steel industry.

MORGAN: Tell me, Mr. Carnegie.

CARNEGIE: I realized before I even started my business that this great nation of ours is a powerful one with unlimited potential and future. I selected good men to serve under me and do the daily running of my business.

MORGAN: A lot of men can say that.
CARNEGIE: Yes, you're right. However, I knew to build up my interest by buying the plants of my friends and associates during bad times when they would need the help. I held no qualms with who I took down to improve the company. Also, I eventually, after some convincing, put my money behind Henry Bessemer's method of steel refining. I even borrowed to build a new plant near Pittsburgh.

MORGAN: I would say the investment was more than worth it.

CARNEGIE: Once again, you are right. Also, by hiring specialists, some of the brightest men I could find, it was only a matter of time before my plants were producing steel from iron oxide. I assume you know that iron oxide was regarded as a useless waste product? (Morgan nods, maybe? Morgan at least thinks to himself, 'what a blowhard') At any rate, I constantly pushed on, trying to build the business up. "Watch costs, and the profits take care of themselves," I always say. My employees brag to me that they break a record, I say Why not do it every week? In the last year I have produced more steal than all of Great Britain. The plants owned by one man managed that. I doubt many would say I am unimportant in this nation's steel industry.

MORGAN: No, you are quite right, Mr. Carnegie.

CARNEGIE: (sigh) I don't know what the future of the industry is, Mr. Morgan, but it lies heavily in your hands now. Let's take care of this.

(are you going to sign the script as your contract? don't! find something else. no one signs my bad work but me!)

(Carnegie signs, followed by the JPman)

(stand, shake hands. while shaking:)
MORGAN: You are now the richest man in the world.