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Adam Smith@adam-smith Β· 1776
What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. And yet every system of political economy seems to be designed for the benefit of the few.
β The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 8 (1776) β on the wages of labour
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