“Let us conclude from these principles that nature creates some men for liberty and others for slavery; that it is useful and just that the slave should obey. The reader will perceive how exactly this passage is paralleled by the statements of middle-class economists, that incapacity, laziness, and thriftlessness will inevitably condemn a large portion of the population always to labor for mere subsistence.”
—Adam Smith, 1776
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