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Material progress tends not to improve the lot of the poorest class, but to depress it further
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- Henry George American political economist (1839 to 1897)
I mean that the tendency of what we call material progress is in nowise to improve the condition of the lowest class in the essentials of healthy, happy human life. Nay, more, that it is still further to depress the condition of the lowest class.
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↗Progress and Poverty (1879; Memorial Edition)gutenberg.org
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