This kind of spoliation is called privilege or monopoly.

We will carefully indicate its origin and character.
Every one knows that the services which he offers in the general market are the more valued and better paid for, the scarcer they are.

Each one, then, will ask for the enactment of a law to keep out of the market all who offer services similar to his.
This variety of spoliation being the chief subject of this volume, I will say little of it here, and will restrict myself to one remark: When the monopoly is an isolated fact, it never fails to enrich the person to whom the law has granted it.

It may then happen that each class of workmen, instead of seeking the overthrow of this monopoly, claim a similar one for themselves.

This kind of spoliation, thus reduced to a system, becomes then the most ridiculous of mystifications for every one, and the definite result is that each one believes that he gains more from a general market impoverished by all.
It is not necessary to add that this singular _regime_ also brings about an universal antagonism between all classes, all professions, and all peoples; that it requires the constant but always uncertain interference of government; that it swarms with the abuses which have been the subject of the preceding paragraph; that it places all industrial pursuits in hopeless insecurity; and that it accustoms men to place upon the law, and not upon themselves, the responsibility for their very existence.