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Stenka25 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

What does “for” mean?

The text below is from an article.

In this article, the meaning of the conjunction “for” is not clear to me. As a conjunction, most dictionaries suggests “for” only has one meaning, which is “because.” But in this text, I am not sure. Rather, it seems “although” to me.

Can you give me what “for” means?

There is something wrong with our value system that encourages people to aspire to those riches. But there's something more fundamentally wrong in our political and economic system that permits them to do so while the vast majority of people languish in poverty, or are barely keeping their heads above water after paying their taxes, their student debts, their rent and basic necessities.

And these flaws are even more glaring when the system is constructed in such a way as to privatise most of the wealth of the financial system in a tiny number of hands, and yet socialise its losses among ordinary working men and women.

For as well as I've done out of the system, I don't want to live in a society with these values, which relies on such a heavily manipulated political economy to deliver such staggeringly unequal wealth.
  

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2 Answers
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It could be changed to "because of [considering] how well I've done..."
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Hi

It is a slightly unusual use of the word, but it is OK..

- For all that you say, I still disagree with you

The dictionary gives this meaning as "notwithstanding"

Dave

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