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What Is Free Trade?

CHAPTER IV
19/32

He invents printing.

The first effect of this is, that the individual is enriched, while many more are impoverished.

At the first view, wonderful as the discovery is, one hesitates in deciding whether it is not more injurious than useful.

It seems to have introduced into the world, as I said above, an element of infinite inequality.

Guttenberg makes large profits by this invention, and perfects the invention by the profits, until all other copyists are ruined.


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