Answer:
It promoted little interference by the government in economic competition.
Explanation:
Social Darwinism perhaps should be called "Spencerism," after Herbert Spencer, who began such thoughts. Spencer and Charles Darwin were rivals, not allies. The term "survival of the fittest" is actually a Spencer term, which he applied to human beings. (Darwin used the term "natural selection" in reference to biological species.)
The ideas of what came to be known as "Social Darwinism" is that some people are just better and more fit to succeed than other, so they ought to succeed and rule over the less-talented members of the human species (like poor people).
Industry titans (sometimes referred to as "robber barons") used the ideas of Social Darwinism to justify their dominating ways over common laborers. The acceptance of such ideas in big business led to moves to keep government from imposing regulations on corporations.
