Henry George's Progress and Poverty
This association of poverty with progress the great enigma of our times...So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. The reaction must come. The tower leans from its foundations, and every new story but hastens the final catastrophe. To educate men who must be condemned to poverty, is but to make them restive; to base on a state of most glaring social inequality political institutions under which men are theoretically equal, is to stand a pyramid on its apex.
Which of the following best describes the primary argument in Henry George’s Progress and Poverty?
A
To suggest an educational system that rationalizes socioeconomic inequalities.
B
To encourage a return to agrarian lifestyles over industrialization.
C
To critique how industrial progress widened wealth disparity, impacting society negatively.
D
To promote the view that luxury and fortune indicate societal progress.
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