For one million dollars, and without the straining of a muscle, he receives five million dollars direct, which, reinvested from time to time as it increases, amounts at the end of the forty years to not less than fifteen millions dollars.
Woodhull illustrates the exponential growth of wealth through investment without labor, critiquing economic inequality.
Share
More from Victoria C. Woodhull
Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.
The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.
The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.