An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

The job market looks perfectly fair. Two free people sign a contract and trade equal values, a scene mocked as “Freedom, Equality, Property and Bentham”, the last because each side looks only to itself. Follow them through the factory door and the picture changes.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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