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Under one boss monopolizing the entire branch of
industry.
| Number of establishments of immense proportions | 10 |
| Number of workers | 39,560 |
| Capital invested | $62,000,000.00 |
| Cost of material | 40,000,000.00 |
| Aggregate amount of wages | 15,359,610.00 |
| Value of implements produced | 100,000,000.00 |
| Annual average of wages for each worker calculated as above | $388.25 |
| Profit of boss | $41,440,390.00 |
You may now interpose any objections you like to the fairness or correctness of these figures, but you will be unable to show the result to be very different from that arrived at by this simple example in arithmetics, always supposed that you do not go outside of the figures of the census.
Reporter: I will admit that, but your example only shows the results of monopolism, and it is not the picture you promised of your imagined system of social production in the future.
Socialist: In order to do that, we only need making an insignificant change in our pictorial example. Look here, Mr. Reporter: Is the monopolistic picture before your mind's eye in all its details?
Reporter: It is.
Socialist: Very well, then, one single move and you will see the whole picture of social production as proposed by the Socialists.
Reporter: I am anxious to see it, indeed.
Socialist: Take away that one man off the head of that big concern and there is the entire system by which society will be made happy and comfortable for all times to come.
Reporter: How so?
Socialist: Don't you see the point? The concern goes on with its work undisturbed, for nothing has been changed in its
