Captains of Industry

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The United States of America's birth occurred rather recently. Yet, this juvenile nation currently ranks as one of the world's greatest industrial powerhouses. This success derived from the early integration of capitalism into the American culture. In young America, ideas, inventions, and techniques warred on the battle fields of laissez-faire capitalism, allowing the most adaptive and successful to survive. This same principle also applied to the citizens of the same time period. The Carnegies, the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, and the Goulds survived, nay, thrived due to their superiority. Their paths of prosperity paved over the hopes and futures of thousands, thrusting them into poverty. Nonetheless, because of the just and necessary actions of these cunning and ingenious Captains of Industry, the infantile America stepped out of its cradle, hurdled crawling, and came forward running.

The Captains of Industry, ruled, due to their superiority, and the weak were ravaged. As Charles Darwin eloquently stated:

Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations? If