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If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another.

— Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth (1766)

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