Before we go on to consider the question of personal responsibility I want to remind you of one very important fact in connection with spending. Money is not paid away for nothing. It is spent in the hope of its ultimately being replaced with something added. It would be a great mistake, however, to assume, as is often ignorantly done, that the capitalist enriches himself at the expense of the public. That is not so. Unless the money supplies a real public want it will produce no return. The money invested in knives and forks and pianos, Jarge consignments of which were shipped to China shortly after the opening of the treaty ports, produced no return at all The Chinese had their chopsticks and gongs and preferred to stick tothem, and the pianos und cutlery had ultimately: to be sold at a heavy loss. It is only by successfully catering for the public that a capitalist becomes rich.
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