16. Resemblance between the two laborious classes.
The two classes of cultivators and artificers, resemble each
other in many respects, and particularly that those who compose
them do not possess any revenue, and both equally subsist on the
wages which are paid them out of the productions of the earth.
Both have also this circumstance in common, that they only gain
the price of their labour and their disbursements, and that this
price is nearly the same in the two classes. The proprietor
agreeing with those who cultivate his ground to pay them as small
a part as possible of its produce, in the same manner as he
bargains with the shoemaker to buy his shoes as cheap as he can.
In a word, neither the cultivator, nor the artificer receives
more than a bare recompense for his labour.
