Status Updates From The Wealth of Nations

“Any rise in the average price of necessaries, unless it is compensated by a proportionable rise in the wages of labour, must necessarily diminish more or less the ability of the poor to bring up numerous families, and consequently to supply the demand for useful labour, whatever may be the state of that demand, whether increasing, stationary, or declining”
Book 5 chapter 2

I just need to say that this is a 37 hour audiobook. That’s insane.