If the Indians could not be forced through kindness to change their ways,
Colonizers sure has a twisted view on kindness...
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But not all so eagerly welcomed inequalities.
Usually those who don't mind the inequality in question, are not affected by the inequality. It makes sense that the tip top didn't care about the rapid growth of poverty, because it means more money in their pockets, and that's all they care about.
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If big business relied on its numerical strength to exert its economic will, why shouldn’t farmers unite to counter that power?
Doing this to combat the overwhelming power of monopolies is a smart move since in this situations, there's anyways more power as a collective than there is as an individual.
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But new connections and new conveniences came at a price.
The industrial revolution and gilded age brought great progress of great new inventions and ideas designed to make life easier, but in turn (because of the limited regulations in place) also caused the suffering of many people.
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The strong must grow stronger, and that they may do so, they must waste no strength in the vain task of trying to uplift the weak.
This phrase reminds me of when people talk about "trickle down economics" and that it will eventually get to the poor because that's "how it's designed", but they don't take into account greed and that the wealthy will just get richer and hoard their wealth and the poor will struggle at the bottom no thanks to them. A horrible society in my opinion.
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