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From this, Mill plunged himself into the writings of the [German Idealists]? and the French political thinkers. He began to reject egoism and then looked at the lower class' plight, the problem of democracy and the question of socialism. From this he began to see the human face of capitalism, which he thought to be the most productive and, thus, best and inevitable, system of economy. However, he saw that the distribution of the product was the problem. He countered this problem by positing that an [interventionist popular democracy]? can control hardships through programs such as social security pensions, [equal opportunity]?, [public education]?, and better roads and housing all made possible by taxation of the wealthy which would also bring political stability. This almost utopian? vision held that the free contract system of the time was unfair and that it was not so much `free contract' as it was slavery. The worker's remuneration was simply not proportional to their exertion thus he thought the system needed alterations to provide equitable proportions. |
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From this, Mill plunged himself into the writings of the [German Idealists]? and the French political thinkers. He began to reject egoism and then looked at the lower class' plight, the problem of democracy and the question of socialism. From this he began to see the human face of capitalism, which he thought to be the most productive and, thus, best and inevitable, system of economy. However, he saw that the distribution of the product was the problem. He countered this problem by positing that an [interventionist popular democracy]? can control hardships through programs such as social security pensions, [equal opportunity]?, [public education]?, and better roads and housing all made possible by taxation of the wealthy which would also bring political stability. This almost utopian vision held that the free contract system of the time was unfair and that it was not so much `free contract' as it was slavery. The worker's remuneration was simply not proportional to their exertion thus he thought the system needed alterations to provide equitable proportions. |
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