Question

Based on the below passage, what does Henry George believe industrialization is during to society? It is true that wealth has been greatly increased and that the average of comfort, leisure, and refinement has been raised; but these gains are not general. In them the lowest classes do not share... The new forces [of progress]... do not act upon the society from underneath... but strike it at a point intermediate between top and bottom. If was a though an immense wedge were being forced, not underneath society but through society. Those who are above the point of separation are elevated, but those who are below are crushed down.

Answer 1

Answer: Industrialization is lifting up the rich and driving down the poor

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