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user-inactivated  ·  2438 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Apples and Walmarts

    Adam Smith

Oh, hey, I'm reading him right now and stuff. Here, have a quote:

    Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favour of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters. Thus the law which obliges the masters in several different trades to pay their workmen in money, and not in goods, is quite just and equitable. It imposes no real hardship upon the masters. It only obliges them to pay that value in money, which they pretended to pay, but did not always really pay, in goods.

But WAIT! It is Walmart we're talking about. I mean, come on. We can do better than regurgitating a random quote.

Take a look at that last bit again:

    Thus the law which obliges the masters in several different trades to pay their workmen in money, and not in goods, is quite just and equitable. It imposes no real hardship upon the masters. It only obliges them to pay that value in money, which they pretended to pay, but did not always really pay, in goods.

Yep.

That's right.

Because of course they would.





kleinbl00  ·  2438 days ago  ·  link  ·