What was the name of the belief system that considered wealth to be measured as fitness

The answer is Social Darwinism.  This beliefs is justifies the idea that the strongest and fittest or financially secure are the ones who rule.  They use this defend their accomplishments.  This was embraced by the Nazis but it is mostly biased thought.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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