The unsolved riddle of social justice / by Stephen Leacock.

  • Stephen Leacock
Date:
1920
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Credit: The unsolved riddle of social justice / by Stephen Leacock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Natural Liberty The rewards and punishments of the economic world are singularly unequal. One man earns as much in a week or even in a day as another does in a year. This man by hard, manual labour makes only enough to pay for humble shelter and plain food. This other by what seems a congenial activity, fascinating as a game of chess, acquires uncounted millions. A third stands idle in the market-place asking in vain for work. A fourth lives upon rent, dozing in his chair, and neither toils nor spins. A fifth by the sheer hazard of a lucky deal ” acquires a fortune without work at all. A sixth, scorning to work, earns nothing and gets nothing ; in him survives a primitive dislike of labour not yet fully evoluted out ” ; he slips through the meshes of civilization to become a tramp,” cadges his food where he can, suns his tattered rags when it is warm and
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