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Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887

CHAPTER 9
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Don't you see that, however unsatisfactory the first adjustment might be, the mistakes would soon correct themselves?
The favored trades would have too many volunteers, and those discriminated against would lack them till the errors were set right.

But this is aside from the purpose, for, though this plan would, I fancy, be practicable enough, it is no part of our system." "How, then, do you regulate wages ?" I once more asked.
Dr.Leete did not reply till after several moments of meditative silence.

"I know, of course," he finally said, "enough of the old order of things to understand just what you mean by that question; and yet the present order is so utterly different at this point that I am a little at loss how to answer you best.

You ask me how we regulate wages; I can only reply that there is no idea in the modern social economy which at all corresponds with what was meant by wages in your day." "I suppose you mean that you have no money to pay wages in," said I.
"But the credit given the worker at the government storehouse answers to his wages with us.

How is the amount of the credit given respectively to the workers in different lines determined?
By what title does the individual claim his particular share?
What is the basis of allotment ?" "His title," replied Dr.Leete, "is his humanity.


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