OBSTACLE TO SOCIALISM.
LACK OF BUSINESS SENSE. “ The real obstacle to socialisation is the fact that workmen are not capable of running a business and that those who run it now are capable. They do not run it so well as they might, but they do run it;. It is not exactly intelligence that differentiates them, but a business sense, which is inborn. The business men have it in some degree and the others lack it; not workmen only, but most people. There are quite as many individuals with a business sense among workmen as in any other class; they rise in the scale, and the newspapers have lately contained several notable examples. But the bulk of the employed have no business sense, and that is why the experiment has so often failed. It is not for want of trying. The attempt has often been made, but it always ends in failrTe or in the conversion of the business into the ordinary form. What I call the business sense is a gift, like any other, and it exists in as many degrees as any other gift.”—Dr Arthur Shadwell, in the Quarterly Review.
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Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1141, 24 July 1930, Page 6
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