12 aBut no system is ever completely perfect,
13 bAnd if the factory workers don't like the way things are in the Most Chosen Capitalist Nation on Earth,
14 They can always go someplace else,
15 cSomeplace where they don't have any lords or gentlemen or highbrow intellectuals,
16 Like America.
CHAPTER 161 When all the poor people run away from Britain and Europe to America,
2 Seeking dequality of opportunity,
3 Capitalism will blossom in America like a new religion,
4 And the New World will cut down its forests to build huge numbers of stinking industrial cities,
5 eNot to mention slums,
6 Where all the poor people who come looking for equal opportunity will get to live,
7 fAnd work no more than twenty or thirty hours a day in factories that aren't owned by lords or gentlemen,
8 But by common people just like themselves,
9 Except that they have more money,
10 And except that some of them are not common people at all,
11 gBut Scots,
12 Which just goes to show you,
13 When it comes to money,
14 It's pretty hard to keep Scots out of the picture,
15 No matter how much you might want to.
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CHAPTER 171 hThanks to Capitalism and many millions of immigrant factory workers,
2 America will become the richest nation on earth,
3 iIn less than a century,
4 Which will prove just how right you were about everything,
5 Because in spite of a few problems,
6 jSuch as mass exploitation of cheap immigrant labor,
7 kDisgusting living and working conditions for the masses,
8 lAnd a brand-new class of common people called "philanthropists," who make millions and give away dimes,
9 mAmerica will become practically an ideal society,
10 And will change practically everything in the world,
11 Forever.
CHAPTER 181 Are you ready now (said the pen) to hear about all the wonderful advances American Capitalism will bring to civilization?
2 Good.
3 I didn't think you wanted to dwell exclusively on the bad things,
4 Because every Scot knows that when money's involved, the news can't be all bad.
CHAPTER 191 The Capitalist Nation called America will wind up inventing more nthings than you would ever dream possible,
2 More even than you could count,
3 If you live to be a hundred,
4 Which you won't,
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