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Again this is no different from the laissez faire approach of the 19th century, the government didn't want to spend much money administering the masses so they pretty much just gave them an area of land and left them to their own devices only intervening when it began to affect them. As the demand for labour increased and crime, disease and poverty kept incapacitating skilled labourers the government gradually introduced more and more public services, the progress of London as the first modern city is probably a text book example of this.