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On the contrary, the whole history of the mechanical era is a persistent struggle for more pay and less work, and to-day it has culminated in world-wide ruin; for there is not a nation in civilization which is not now in the throes of economic distress, and many of them are on the verge of ruin.
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James Beck
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Beck critiques the mechanical era's focus on pay over productivity, linking it to economic distress.

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