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Ok next up The final paragraph line sixty six through

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seventy four serves primarily to do what Well Earlier in

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the passage the author mentions that farmer's share of the

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national wealth had precipitously declined and their iconic place in

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the american imagination was at risk While here though she

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turns that idea on its head by introducing social darwinism

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she takes something that had been bad or at least

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had seemed bad like tons of farmers losing their livelihood

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and suggest that maybe that was an unfortunate but necessary

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part of progress By presenting another idea the author herself

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doesn't disparage the work of twain Get rid of a

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or support social darwinism get rid of d She just

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gives both playtime in the sandbox which is something we

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never experienced as children Life is unfair but sand box

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should be social Darwinism also recognizes that economic inequality was

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huge so get rid of b and that major changes

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were occurring So get rid of e But it doesn't

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necessarily see those as bad things like f y I

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Social darwinism isn't the most compassionate viewpoint Ayn rand would

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be so proud Yeah so the answer here is see

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it recast the rest of the passage in a new

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light

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