Social Darwinism: The Evolution of Business
Revolution
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism began when Charles Darwin came up with the contradictory, yet extremely revolutionary theory of evolution. "Social Darwinism" was the application of the evolution of species by Darwin's theory to the evolution of society by man. The idea was shortly picked up in America, and it was used to justiy big businesses' compensation because they felt that being the fittest meant they were more powerful.
