Signs of Change
Also known as Signs of Change: Seven Lectures
A work by William Morris
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Competition is war, which at best pursues one’s own advantage at the cost of someone else’s loss, Every civilized country has, or could have, plenty for all, and sharing existing wealth fairly would make everyone comparatively comfortable, Under the present system labour-saving machines have not cut any worker’s hours …
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- There are 20 claims from it on korrents, each quoted word for word.
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What korrents draws from it
korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.
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Competition is war, which at best pursues one’s own advantage at the cost of someone else’s loss (opens korrents.com)1
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Every civilized country has, or could have, plenty for all, and sharing existing wealth fairly would make everyone comparatively comfortable (opens korrents.com)1
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Under the present system labour-saving machines have not cut any worker’s hours (opens korrents.com)1
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Letting machines be our masters rather than our servants is what injures the beauty of life today (opens korrents.com)1
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The real masters of society are landlords and capitalists, whom political reform alone would not touch (opens korrents.com)1
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Trying to change the present system piecemeal underrates how strongly it grinds people into their places (opens korrents.com)1
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