OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM
Sir.— Mr. E. Stevenson’s reply to my question led me to re-read “Progress and Poverty,” but it seems to me that Henry George’s idea, if tried, would fail to solve the problem of unemployment, although it would certainly end the land gambling curse. To me, machine monopoly seems to create far more unemployment than the monopoly of land. Competition for profit has produced the machine to cheapen and increase production, without which society could make no progress. But as the machine comes in the men go out and the women also. The workers’ ability to produce an unlimited worldsupply for a limited world-market seems to be the main cause of the world’s trouble. Competition for world-markets led to the great war of 1914, and may, possibly, in the near future, lead to a still greater war. ISTeither governments nor classes, employers nor employed are to blame, hut the present social system, which is based upon production for loss instead of for profit. WILLIAM PERRY, The Hermit of Great Barrier.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 426, 7 August 1928, Page 8
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172OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 426, 7 August 1928, Page 8
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