The impending crisis : $b conditions resulting from the concentration of wealth in the United StatesBouroff, Basil A.
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The impending crisis : $b conditions resulting from the concentration of wealth in the United States
Bouroff, Basil A.
Trusts, Industrial; United States -- Economic conditions; Wealth
In fact, Dr. Warner’s book of more than 400 pages is one that represents
the saddest spectacle [SN: TWO SISTERS OF INIQUITY.] of human misery on
the largest scale. It treats all possible causes of the misery,
excepting the main, and all-powerful, cause of all the minor causes,
which I have named dividogenesure, because it is the sister of
primogeniture, the one being as iniquitous for millions of families as
the other.
As a universally pernicious principle, dividogenesure is always working
in behalf of a few favorites. It has always been unjust to the
employees, even when those [SN: IMPLIES DEGREES OF INJUSTICE.] favorites
commanded an equal number of places of employment to the number of the
employees in a nation, because the latter have always been obliged to
divide the results of their toil at an unjust rate of per cent with the
former. The injustice of dividogenesure, however, intensifies as soon as
the number of the employees becomes greater than the number of the
places of employment, and this injustice grows especially intense when
these employees appear to be the propertyless individuals. And when a
nation has so many propertyless individuals as to outnumber by millions
the places of employment, then, the great injustice of dividogenesure
changes into the very foundation of iniquity. For its favorites, then,
make all possible devices, like the blanks with tens of scrutinizing
questions, and other humiliating devices for the purpose of selecting
the most efficient applicants for employment at the cheapest possible
rates of payment. Thus, the employed ones become harder and harder
economic slaves of these favorites, while the unemployed are cast out of
the sphere of the slavery without bread, etc., into the sphere of
starvation and the public relief.
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