“ A man grows rich by employing a multitude of manufacturers; he grows poor by maintaining a multitude or menial servants. ”
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776). copy citation
| Author | Adam Smith |
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| Source | The Wealth of Nations |
| Topic | servant multitude |
| Date | 1776 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm |
Context
“Though the manufacturer has his wages advanced to him by his master, he in reality costs him no expense, the value of those wages being generally restored, together with a profit, in the improved value of the subject upon which his labour is bestowed. But the maintenance of a menial servant never is restored. A man grows rich by employing a multitude of manufacturers; he grows poor by maintaining a multitude or menial servants. The labour of the latter, however, has its value, and deserves its reward as well as that of the former. But the labour of the manufacturer fixes and realizes itself in some particular subject or vendible commodity, which lasts for some time at least after that labour is past.”
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