The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

"The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice" by Stephen Leacock is a detailed look at social justice and economic ideas from the early 1900s. It’s about the hard parts of economic systems and social inequality, especially the fight between rich and poor people in a world run by factories. Leacock looks at the history of social thinking and investigates why both doing things on your own and socialism haven’t fixed the big problems of the time. The story starts with a world full of strikes and worried workers after a big war. Workers are fighting about pay and jobs, which causes more strikes and money problems. Leacock shows clearly how different rich and poor people live and says that even though we're making more stuff than ever before, it's not shared fairly. He thinks these money problems mean we need to rethink how our society works, while asking ourselves important questions about fairness, worker rights, and whether big changes might be coming.