ABSTRACT
Since mankind formed a society and practiced division of labor, more work was performed on earth. Everyone, limiting himself to only one task, had acquired an extraordinary skill in performing it; everyone had gained by increasing his output through the blind forces of nature he had succeeded in taming; everyone had multiplied his own powers by the scientific forces the engineers had shown him to use. The Solitary worked to rest, social man works so that someone may rest; the Solitary gathered to enjoy thereafter, social man accumulates the fruits of his sweat for him who can enjoy them; but from the moment that he and his peers produce more, and infinitely more than they can consume, then what they produce must be destined for the consumption of people who will live in no manner like him, and will not produce at all. Production comes to a halt from the moment it cannot be exchanged against income.
