Project Gutenberg 2022-08-15 Public domain in the USA. 132 Meader, John Richard 1870 Hood, Graham Meader, John R. 14018068 Your pay envelope $aUnited States :$bThe Devin-Adair Company,$c1914. deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Your Pay Envelope" by John Richard Meader is a critical examination of the principles of socialism written in the early 20th century. The work addresses the economic and social implications of socialist doctrines and aims to disprove the idea that socialism offers solutions to the struggles of the working class. It presents the author's perspectives on various facets of labor, wages, and the capitalist system, laying the groundwork for understanding his opposition to socialist reform. The opening portion of the text introduces a letter addressed to a worker named Mr. Smith, setting up a conversational and didactic tone. Meader discusses the claims made by a soap-box orator promoting socialism, emphasizing the need for factual analysis over emotive rhetoric. He argues that many assertions about worker exploitation stem from a misunderstanding of economic realities, and he seeks to provide a logical foundation to dispute notions of "wage slavery" under capitalism. This early section also suggests that while workers face genuine hardships, socialism's proposed solutions are impractical, and he prepares to dissect these arguments in the chapters that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/yourpayenvelope00mead 20211103134501meader 1914 US Reading ease score: 57.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Socialism HX Text Category: Politics Category: Economics 319308 2025-07-27T08:34:54.316247 text/html 289926 2024-10-18T23:58:50 text/html 428943 2025-07-27T08:35:00.779219 application/epub+zip 425939 2025-07-27T08:34:56.099330 application/epub+zip 298813 2025-07-27T08:34:55.013257 application/epub+zip 941970 2025-07-27T08:35:04.211188 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 909998 2025-07-27T08:35:00.070255 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 843605 2022-09-30T22:38:41.131125 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270812 2025-07-27T08:34:53.788312 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 250881 2024-10-18T23:58:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16185 2025-07-27T08:35:04.353219 application/rdf+xml 15595 2025-07-27T08:34:55.463234 image/jpeg 3003 2025-07-27T08:34:55.279298 image/jpeg 878163 2025-07-27T08:34:54.358243 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog