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Bellamy also assumes that having a strong central government is the best way to run society because having the nation be in charge will create more equality and increase productivity. Dr. Leete, who describes the new way of life to Julian states that the nation “‘became the one capitalist in the place of all other capitalists, the sole employer…. The epoch of trusts had ended’” (Bellamy 17-18). With the nation becoming the only capitalist, all the trusts and monopolies that existed in the ninetieth century disappeared. These trusts were creating corruption as big businesses tried to hoard wealth and put the small capitalist at a risk of poverty. Now, that the nation is the only capitalist all those problems do not exist creating more economic

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