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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: community goes to feed the red fiend of war?"
And then Schliemann went on to outline some of the wastes of
competition: the losses of industrial warfare; the ceaseless
worry and friction; the vices--such as drink, for instance, the
use of which had nearly doubled in twenty years, as a consequence
of the intensification of the economic struggle; the idle and
unproductive members of the community, the frivolous rich and the
pauperized poor; the law and the whole machinery of repression;
the wastes of social ostentation, the milliners and tailors, the
hairdressers, dancing masters, chefs and lackeys. "You
understand," he said, "that in a society dominated by the fact of
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