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There are more merchants today, surer deliveries, and wider well-being, but are there not, also, bigger thieves, deeper injustice, and more calloused selfishness in well-being?
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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This passage contrasts the increase in commerce and well-being with the rise of theft and injustice in society.
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