The Laissez faire gave power to one individual at the factory, the head of the company.The owners believed that the market was made by god (not man made), so if something went wrong it wasn't their problem. The labors saw the bad end of this because if they got hurt in the factory the owner wouldnt give him or her sick time. The owners also thought that if you were poor it wasn't their fault for not paying you enought it was gods fault for making you this way. God made the owners riich and handsome, and the poor people poor and ugly, therefore it wasnt the owners fault they had nothing to do with it. This was how followers of the Laissez faire thought life went. Plus it save them from the govermnet intervening and setting laws about wages and hours.
Social Darwinsm started the term "survival of the fittest". People who followed social darwinism( rich people because they got something out of it) believed that society was like a jungle with the struggle of the classes. They also believed that the weak would perish and everybody left would be rich and happy. The labors got nothing out of this because in the end they perish. but because people viewd stuff this way they would neglet the workeers thinking oh well they were only going to die anyways im putting them out of their miserary.
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