| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1044 |
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pairs of boots and abundance of clothing, which they had helped to make, were locked up in warehouses, and the System had the keys. Thousands of people lacked the necessaries of life. The necessaries of life are all produced by work. The people who lacked begged to be allowed to work and create those things of which they stood in need. But the System prevented them from so doing. If anyone asked the System why it prevented these people from producing the things of which they were in want, the System replied: `Because they have already produced too much. The markets are glutted. The warehouses are filled and overflowing, and there is nothing more for them to do.' There was in existence a huge accumulation of everything necessary. A great number of the people whose labour had produced that vast store were now living in |
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