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the Industrial Revolution

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capitalism

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what is it?

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taking back what one just said; eating one's words; negating one's previous comment, opinion, etc.

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last week; the week before

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capitalist; financier

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project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct

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employee; worker; laborer (labourer); blue-collar worker

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to employ; to hire; to charter

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profit; returns

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structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance

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development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life

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as; because; with; due to

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social problem

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magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification

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easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all

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reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight

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no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable

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state; country; nation

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to intensify; to be excited; to fly into a rage; to dash against; to encourage

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disparity of wealth; wealth inequality; social inequality

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to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

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wages; pay; rental payment

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environment; circumstance

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inferior; coarse; poor quality; inadequate; deteriorated

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negotiations; discussions; connection

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exploitation; bleeding dry; squeezing dry; milking (e.g. a cow's teat); extracting (a liquid) through squeezing

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qualitative difference; disparity; gap

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to spread (out); to extend; to stretch; to reach to; to get around; to fill (e.g. a space)

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such

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many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly

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Jaspers

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Sartre

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existentialism

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Bentham

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stag seaweed (Codium fragile); green sea fingers; dead man's fingers; felty fingers; forked felt-alga; sponge seaweed

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utilitarianism

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Marx; Marks; Marcks; Marcus; Markus

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socialism

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as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible

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large number (of); many; majority

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happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness

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pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.); search; chase; seeking after

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profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing

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naturally; in due course; by itself; of its own accord

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existing

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improvement; reform

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to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan

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one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although

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from the beginning; from scratch

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