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We shall then have no longer, all over the earth, the competition of pauper labor with pauper labor, but only the competition of free labor with free labor.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “We shall then have no longer, all over the earth, the competition of pauper labor with pauper labor, but only the…”
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He envisions a future where laborers compete freely rather than being pitted against each other in poverty.
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