The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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