On the signs of those magnificent warehouses which he in his poverty admires, the laborer reads in large letters: "This is thy work, and thou shalt not have it." _Sic vos non vobis_! Every manufacturer who employs one thousand laborers, and gains from them daily one sou each, is slowly pushing them into a state of misery.
Every man who makes a profit has entered into a conspiracy with famine.
But the whole nation has not even this labor, by means of which property starves it.

And why?
Because the workers are forced by the insufficiency of their wages to monopolize labor; and because, before being destroyed by dearth, they destroy each other by competition.

Let us pursue this truth no further.
If the laborer's wages will not purchase his product, it follows that the product is not made for the producer.

For whom, then, is it intended?
For the richer consumer; that is, for only a fraction of society.

But when the whole society labors, it produces for the whole society.