Edmund Burke: “Increase the rate of wages to the laborer, say the regulators,--as if…”

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Increase the rate of wages to the laborer, say the regulators,--as if labor was but one thing, and of one value.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke critiques the simplistic view that labor can be uniformly valued.

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Edmund Burke: “Increase the rate of wages to the laborer, say the regulators,--as if labor was but one thing, and of one value.”