From the November 1923 issue of the Socialist Standard
“It may be laid down for an undeniable truth, that where all work nobody will want, and to promote this would be a greater charity and more meritorious than to build hospitals, which very often are but so many monuments of ill-gotten riches, attended with late repentance.”Wm. Petty, 1699.
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A bit of weird one as Petty actually died in 1687. I can only presume that the quote was from a collection of Petty's writings that were published in 1699.
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