HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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It would favor businesses that support workers and improve factory conditions.
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It would create competition by preventing business from failing.
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It would cause the best businesses to survive and benefit society.
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It would prompt government assistance for the most useful businesses.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thus, Spencer thought government should be little more than a referee in the highly competitive “survival of the fittest.” Spencer’s theory of social evolution, called Social Darwinism by others, helped provided intellectual support for laissez-faire capitalism in America.
Detailed explanation-2: -Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”-the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.
Detailed explanation-3: -Anything that interfered with the self-improvement of superior individuals or markets was to be resisted. What came to be called “social Darwinism” was used to argue for unrestrained economic competition and against aid to the unfit poor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Individualism and Social Darwinism combined to justify the social consequences of the new industrial capitalism to say that the people who succeeded had because they were worthy and the fittest individuals in society. The many people who were poor had earned their failure through laziness, stupidity, or carelessness.