It brought about the ideology of “social Darwinism,” which meant that those who did not succeed was because they were genetically inferior. Darwin says, ““One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” By saying that the weaker, poorer people should die by nature, people began to believe that it was not their business to interact with them. However, Jacob Riis saw the issue with this: “There came a time when the discomfort and consequent upheavals so violent…then the upper half fell to inquiring what was the matter. Information on the subject has been accumulating rapidly since, and the whole world has had its hands full answering for its old ignorance.” Since people within society are indeed interconnected, as shown by New York values and Riis’ observation, social Darwinism was a dangerous idea because the rich and the poor could not simply ignore each other in this new urban civilization. If the gap were to span any further, society would simply cease to function. Therefore, something needed to be done about this ever-widening power
It brought about the ideology of “social Darwinism,” which meant that those who did not succeed was because they were genetically inferior. Darwin says, ““One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” By saying that the weaker, poorer people should die by nature, people began to believe that it was not their business to interact with them. However, Jacob Riis saw the issue with this: “There came a time when the discomfort and consequent upheavals so violent…then the upper half fell to inquiring what was the matter. Information on the subject has been accumulating rapidly since, and the whole world has had its hands full answering for its old ignorance.” Since people within society are indeed interconnected, as shown by New York values and Riis’ observation, social Darwinism was a dangerous idea because the rich and the poor could not simply ignore each other in this new urban civilization. If the gap were to span any further, society would simply cease to function. Therefore, something needed to be done about this ever-widening power