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I recall Adam Smith not being a fan of landlords.

I’m not even sure Smith was a capitalist in the modern sense. He held out similar derision for the merchant class, although the exact quote escapes me.

The quote most people would reference is probably this one:

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

– The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter X.

That’s the one I was thinking of.

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