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A fortune made by legitimate industry does not exploit the employees who helped make it
Drawn from what William Graham Sumner said
What William Graham Sumner actually said
- William Graham Sumner American sociologist (1840 to 1910)
In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés, or make his capital "out of" anybody else. The wealth which he wins would not be but for him.
Where this was said
↗What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)gutenberg.org
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