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Lysander Spooner: “And laborers would at least have ten, twenty, or fifty times better chances for hiring capital, than they have now.”

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And laborers would at least have ten, twenty, or fifty times better chances for hiring capital, than they have now.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner believes that laborers would have vastly improved opportunities for hiring capital under freedom.

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