An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

A farmer sells corn to buy clothes, and the circuit ends when the clothes wear out. A merchant buys cotton for £100 to sell it for £110. That circuit never ends, because the goal each time is more money than you started with.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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