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September 26, 2015

Benjamin Franklin on manufactures and poverty



“Manufactures are founded on poverty [because] it is the multitude of the poor without land in a country and who must work for others at low wages or starve that enable undertakers to carry on a manufacture.”                          
                                               Benjamin Franklin








Quoted by Steve Fraser, “The Age of Acquiescence”