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Screenplay: We will have an opening video and we we will come in and explain capitalism and Mike will post videos and Keith Braden and Pat will narrate the video and have a documentary style movie. > More deformed children worked in factories than on the farms because the work was lighter and out of the weather. > Research: > Capitalism is the belief in individual wealth and everyone keeps and makes their own wealth. It is the opposite of Socialism because Socialism is universal health care and everyones money is shared.
 * When wages went down, it was during a period of deflation - more people were working and their money could buy more sustenance than before.
 * Ramshackled, jury-built housing was built by homeless individuals, not the factories. Factories built decent, sturdy houses for their workers.
 * The standard of living of families dropped when state laws prohibited children from working in the factories. They went from many wage earners to one.
 * Windowless housing units were due to the state tax on windows, causing many apartment buildings to actually board up such windows as were already present.
 * A large Irish immigration overloaded towns with workers eager to "work for pennies" to replace the children recently outlawed from the factories. As for the worth of a penny, one need only read this sign from a pub of the time, “You can get drunk for a penny, Dead