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The capitalist, while enjoying as much profit as all the laborers, is also liable for all losses, in which the laborer has no interest.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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gutenberg.orgThe capitalist, while enjoying as much profit as all the laborers, is also liable for all losses, in which the laborer has no interest.
Woodhull points out that capitalists bear the risks of investment, unlike laborers who do not share in losses.
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It will only be considered as a means to other and higher ends.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.