Laissez-faire benefitted Americans by promoting hard work and progress. Laissez-faire allowed corporations to basically have complete freedom in the market place. This lead to social darwinism in America. The idea favored those who worked the hardest. It was how some of the richest men of the time made it. It was also what lead to the vast majority of Americans working as laborers. However, this was theoretically their place. They didn’t work as hard so surely they didn’t deserve to be part of the upper class. William Graham Summer said, “In all these schemes and projects the organized intervention of society through the State is either planned or hoped for, and the State is thus made to become the protector and guardian of certain classes.”
