![]() On the market the consumers, i.e., all of the people, are supreme. The modern system of the market economy-capitalism-radically differs from the status system of the ancien régime. A hierarchical order of hereditary castes was established under which the kings and aristocrats administered all affairs for their own benefit, while the lower strata of the population had no other function than that of toiling for their masters and of making life as agreeable as possible for them. The stronger beat the weaker into submission. In any social system the main issue is how to promote peaceful co-operation among people markedly different from one another not only in bodily characteristics but also in mental capacity, will power, and moral strength.įor thousands of years people knew only one method of dealing with inborn inequality: to make the superiority of the stronger over the weaker prevail throughout. The inborn inequality of the various individuals of the human species poses the most intricate problem for all interhuman relations. ![]()
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