After reading the assignment, I found this idea that Smith presents about how wealth increases in a nation particularly interesting.
"The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, naturally increases with the increase of national wealth, and cannot possibly increase without it" (pg.78)
I believe that this passage describes the increase of wealth within a nation very well, and can lead the reader to visualize this as a cycle in which revenue and stock, demand for laborers, wages of laborers, and wealth, all effect each other. I find this especially interesting because it displays this interdependence that arrived with modern society. And while it may be assumed or thought by the general public that the "masters" or bosses hold the majority of the power, this cycle displays how they're dependency of each other is equal, but the difference is that the laborers need of their masters is much more immediate given the laborers lack or savings/supplies.
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