An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

Profit isn’t mainly for the owner to spend. Rivals keep growing, so the owner has to put most of it back into the business to keep up. Economists of the day praised this saving, and their whole rule came down to “Accumulate, accumulate!”

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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