1. Human resources (of appropriate age, young and many of them)
2. Infrastructure
3. Appropriate investment in education(in america this costs a fortune, and all schools are based on housing taxes)
4. Appropriate investment in healthcare(healthcare is also expensive
5. Natural resources
Major Barbara was written during the height of UK's Industrial Revolution. The idea is that commerce is going to fix everything. However its hasn't because there is still a huge disparity between the rich and the poor. Therefore then there are organisations such as the Salvation army who are intrenched into caring for the poor people. However what they are doing in reality is trading food for prayer.
Shaw sees commerce as the answer. However the question is, what do we do with commerce? Shaw is saying that the real power of England is in the hands of the people who control the money, not the government. The end of the play is what we call the tri-partite.
Undershaft is so excited for cousins to become the leader of the business because he is a Greek professor. A professor of the classes.
*UNDERSHAFT*- can undershaft exist now? In our times.
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