What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society can be flourishing and happy if the greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist
The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. viii (1776)

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