However, if by usurping legislative power, landowners prohibit the landless farm laborers from working away from the land in return for subsistence, the equilibrium between services is broken.
Category: Competition
2. DISMISSING MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
But this is where the loss lies. In the village, one man dug and ploughed: he was a worker. At Metz, he turns his head left and right: he is a soldier.
13. – THE FEAR OF A WORD.
That proves that the people still have a lot to learn, and while they are learning it there is no lack of persons like your Mr. Big ready to take advantage of their credulity.
XV. – THE FREE TRADER’S LITTLE ARSENAL.
All injustice is of benefit to someone […]; to defend injustice on the grounds of the inconvenience that its abolition will cause the person who benefits from it, is to say that an injustice should be eternal for the sole reason that it has existed for an instant.
VI. – TO ARTISANS AND WORKERS.
These people do not want any competition for their changing wool into cloth because it is their trade, but they are all too willing to accept competition for the converting of cloth into suits because it is yours.
V. – HIGH PRICES, LOW PRICES.
Doubtless, foreign competition and even competition in general is always a nuisance, and if a branch of activity were able to break free of it on its own, it would do good business for a time.
III. – THE TWO AXES.
Between you and the Belgians, therefore, there is just about the same difference as between a dull and sharp axe.
VII. – PETITION BY THE MANUFACTURERS OF CANDLES, ETC.
Well then, if consumers have an interest in the admission of natural light, producers have one in its prohibition.
IV. – EQUALIZING THE CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION.
In this way, the generosity of nature, like the advances made in production processes, is or constantly tends to become the common and free heritage of consumers, the masses, and the human race, in accordance with the law of competition.