ABSTRACT
Many men take poverty as a natural condition. It is an unnatural condition. In the United States, there is no reason for it. Every man has not the ability to be the director of serving enterprises, just as every man has not the abil ity to jump five-foot fences, but with the subdivision of labour and the provision of so many jobs which require no skill, every man has the opportunity to earn a living. Some men will always be failures if left to their own direction. Thousands of farmers ought to be working in shops. They are wasting their time trying to farm — they have not the sense of management. Thousands of men in small business who are trying hard to make ends meet but never succeeding would do very well in a large corporation where they might have direction. Then, also, we have the effects of a bad industrial system which operates on the short-sighted profit motive, and which makes employment intermittent by, from time to time, through high prices, reducing the number of buyers.
