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The capitalist becomes a unit with much, and his labourers a crowd with little.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The capitalist becomes a unit with much, and his labourers a crowd with little.”
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Bagehot describes the growing divide between wealthy capitalists and their laborers in society.
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