"The more opportunities there are in a society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent" -- 18th Century Finnish economist and Swedish parliamentarian Anders Chydenius in The National Gain, 1765. He also wrote, in Thoughts on the Natural Rights of Servants and Peasants (1778) that “The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.”
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