The unsolved riddle of social justice / by Stephen Leacock.

  • Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944.
Date:
1920
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The unsolved riddle of social justice / by Stephen Leacock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ——w————M—TM—r—mimiiii 11 iiiiitamTTnwBTTrrrn'^^^ Hoii^ Mr. Bellamy Looked Backward Edith, and meals in wonderful communistic restau- rants with romantic waiters, who feel themselves, mirabile dictu^ quite independent. And this is how the commonwealth operates. Everybody works or at least works until the age of forty, so that it may be truly said in these halcyon days, everybody works but father. But the work of life does not begin till education ends at the age of twenty-one. After that all the young men and women pass for three years into the general “ In- dustrial Army,” much as the young men used to pass into the ranks of conscription. Afterwards each person may select any trade that he likes. But the hours are made longer or shorter according to whether too many or too few young people apply to come in. A gardener works for more hours than a scavenger. Yet all occupations are equally honourable. The wages of all the people are equal; or rather there are no wages at all, as the workers merely receive cards, which entitle them to goods of such and such a quantity at any of the emporiums. The cards are punched out as the goods are used. The goods are all valued according to the amount of time used in their making, and each citizen draws out the same total amount. But he may take it out in instalments just as he likes, drawing many things lOI