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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: England, would besiege in Samoa the doors of the rich; and the
essence of the dishonesty in either case is to pursue one's own
advantage and to be indifferent to the losses of one's neighbour.
But the particular drawback of the Polynesian system is to depress
and stagger industry. To work more is there only to be more
pillaged; to save is impossible. The family has then made a good
day of it when all are filled and nothing remains over for the crew
of free-booters; and the injustice of the system begins to be
recognised even in Samoa. One native is said to have amassed a
certain fortune; two clever lads have individually expressed to us
their discontent with a system which taxes industry to pamper
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