2The “Vision Thing”
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.… Every individual, therefore, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.… He intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this… led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.… Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.… The benefits of the division ...
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