An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

It comes from one special thing on sale: a person’s ability to work, rented by the day or the week. The seller is “free in the double sense”. They are free to sell it, and they own no land or tools that would let them live another way.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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