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Plainly labor cannot be free, unless the laborers are free to hire all the money capital that is necessary for their industries.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Plainly labor cannot be free, unless the laborers are free to hire all the money capital that is necessary for their…”
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Spooner states that labor cannot be considered free if laborers are restricted from hiring necessary capital.
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