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To: paul_philp who wrote (90319)	4/5/2003 4:05:52 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) of 281500

It is true that change causes pain, which can be very real pain. Your example of the early industrial revolution is a good one. Children working in mines, workers being crushed by poorly designed machines, smokestacks belching black soot, piles of slag being poured into rivers. Brown lung caused by cotton dust, black lung caused by coal dust, lung cancer from asbestos. It was horrific. Unbridled capitalism as a force of nature red in tooth and claw. Did y'all have Robber Barons in Canada? We did. J.P. Morgan's father got his fortune started during the Civil War, buying defective rifles cheap and selling them back as new. Andrew Carnegie broke a strike using Pinkerton detectives who were ordered to use violence, and even kill strikers. Personally I don't understand why people have to be so awful. Not that the Communists nor the Monarchies did it any better. Millions killed by the Communists, and let's don't forget the Belgian Congo.

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