Status Updates From Wohlstand der Nationen

This is genuinely one of the hardest economic reads to slog through. Not because it's super smart, hard to conceive or anything of that sort. It's hard to read because Smith uses so many words and particular examples to push his narrative and he says so much but actually says very little.

This is moreso fascinating in the sense of understanding how our current capitalist beliefs came to be contrived

Guys we are so fucked today 😭 even Adam Smith believed in a living wage lowkey (even if it was just to ensure the future generation of workers)

Plus this quote really stuck out:
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy when the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"
LOOKING @ YOU AMERICA