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The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"… There is but one way to remove an evil-and that is,to remove its cause. Poverty deepens as wealth increases,and wages are forced down while productive power grows,because land,which is the source of all wealth and the field of all labor,is monopolized.To extirpate poverty,to make wages what justice commands they should be,the full earnings of the laborer,we must therefore substitute for the individual ownership of land a common ownership.Nothing else will go to the cause of the evil…This,then,is the remedy for the unjust and unequal distribution of wealth apparent in modern civilization,and for all the evils which flow from it…
Henry George,Progress and Poverty,1879
-Which of the following ideas expressed in the excerpt is contrary to those of the Social Darwinists?


A) There should be equal availability of resources.
B) Capitalization causes poverty
C) Wages increase as more products are produced
D) Monopolies are good for society

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