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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: to cheat them of their full share in the common output, and drive
hard bargains. It believes that private employers are equally
ready to sacrifice the welfare of the nation and the welfare of
the workers for mere personal advantage. It has a traditional
experience to support these suspicions.
In no department of morals have ideas changed so completely
during the last eight years as in relation to "profits". Eighty
years ago everyone believed in the divine right of property to do
what it pleased its advantages, a doctrine more disastrous
socially than the divine right of kings. There was no such sense
of the immorality of "holding up" as pervades the public
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