Cory Doctorow on Nostr: As the Marxist pamphleteer Adam Smith wrote in his Leninist textbook *The Wealth of ...

As the Marxist pamphleteer Adam Smith wrote in his Leninist textbook *The Wealth of Nations*, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

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