Furthermore, this extreme poverty, in which the laborers are to be kept, necessarily implies that they are to receive no larger share of the proceeds of their own labor, than is necessary to keep them in a condition to labor.
He highlights that keeping laborers in extreme poverty limits their share of the fruits of their labor to just what is necessary for survival.
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