{"id":4225,"date":"2009-07-16T20:46:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:14:53","slug":"division-of-labor-is-a-stepladder-to-sheeple-dom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/07\/16\/division-of-labor-is-a-stepladder-to-sheeple-dom\/","title":{"rendered":"Division Of Labor Is A Stepladder To Sheeple-Dom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People read snippets of Adam Smith, the few phrases they teach in school. Everybody reads the first paragraph of The Wealth of Nations where he talks about how wonderful the division of labor is. But not many people get to the point hundreds of pages later, where he says that division of labor will destroy human beings and turn people into creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to be. And therefore in any civilized society the government is going to have to take some measures to prevent division of labor from proceeding to its limits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/dandelionsalad.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/05\/chomsky-on-adam-smith-1995\/\">Noam Chomsky on Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/progressive-economics\/07\/13\/the-myth-versus-the-reality-of-adam-smiths-political-economy\/\">The Myth Versus the Reality of Adam Smith\u2019s Political Economy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/professorbainbridgecom\/2009\/07\/the-immorality-of-high-taxes.html\">The Immorality of High Taxes<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2009\/07\/15\/bookblogging-dead-ideas-introduction\/\">Dead Ideas Introduction<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[tags]adam smith, noam chomsky, wealth of nations, division of labor, impact of division of labor[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People read snippets of Adam Smith, the few phrases they teach in school. 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