ue of social mobility. Dickens suggests that perhaps the Hands cannot overcome poverty entirely on their own. Through this, he shows that extreme individualism is not reliable and accelerates the downfall of society.
             Like Dickens, another thinker who recognized the importance of individualism was Weber (Dwyer 2002). Weber stressed the significance of ideas in shaping economic development of society (ibid). He argued that before capitalism could take place, people had to believe and accept capitalist ideology (ibid).
             One way that this capitalist ideology was perpetuated, according to Weber, was through the Protestant religion. Weber argu
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