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Just wages should buy back at least as much labour as the worker gave
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- John Ruskin English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900)
The abstract idea, then, of just or due wages, as respects the labourer, is that they will consist in a sum of money which will at any time procure for him at least as much labour as he has given, rather more than less.
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