How did american economic principles and the ideas of social darwinists encourage the growth of big business

Social Darwinism is basically the same idea as Darwin's natural selection theory, except it pertains to humans. It states that we as humans in a social environment are subject to these same laws that animals are.

Darwin stated that in an competitive natural environment, animals must adapt to changing conditions in order to survive. Those who were more fit would survive, and those that were not, perished.

This same law affects us as humans in the same sense, only differing in the fact that we're competing in a social environment. Instead of thinking of animals, we have to think about businesses. Today, businesses and corporations constantly have to adapt to their environment in order to be the best. The better a business' competitive edge is, the more likely it is that they will stay in business for a very long time. Take Amazon for example, when it first started, no one thought it would go anywhere, but now, its ALL people use to shop online. You can't compete with them now since they're so big. They adapted to a changing environment, an environment that was shifting from physical shopping to online shopping. And now, we see the old stores who didn't adapt well (like Toys R Us) go out of business.

This happens all the time today, and not only with business, but with school. Students are probably the second most competitive group today, and must be the best in order to succeed.

depends on the age of the teen, many believe by the age of 16 a person should know the strong difference between right and wrong along with the difference between risky and immediate death. swimming with sharks might be dangerous but swimming with sharks while bloody meat is attached to you is just insane. even more if you have no idea what you're doing. however, no matter the age, as long as the person is skilled enough and has the mental and physical capacity to control their actions doing whatever sport they put their mind to is all that matters.

uncle sam would be tossing and turning in his grave : *)