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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: held-up land and material into workable and actively used
material in exchange for national debt may be indeed a positive
increase in the wealth of the community. And what is happening
in all the belligerent countries is the taking over of more and
more of the realities of wealth from private hands and, in
exchange, the contracting of great masses of debt to private
people. The nett tendency is towards the disappearance of a
reality holding class and the destruction of realities in
warfare, and the appearance of a vast /rentier/ class in its
place. At the end of the war much material will be destroyed for
evermore, transit, food production and industry will be
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