Let us therefore put our inquiry into this compact form: Why, in spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living?
Every unit of capital that any one offers for hire has a productive power.
When these products vary in the case of different shops, the men are called to the points where the apparent additions are largest, and the constant tendency is toward a level of productive power.
A mere increase in country population does not increase the productive power of the soil.
The difference between the average of the first twelve years and the average of the second twelve years should represent the actual change in productive power during a period of twelve years.
But may it not be doubted whether these minds have productive power of any kind?
Credit is not a productive power in itself, though without it the productive powers already existing could not be brought into complete employment.
The inquiry is--why, in spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living?
But that portion of capital which consists of wages, has no productive power of its own.
Hence there is an ever-increasing margin of productive power redundant so far as the production of present consumptive goods is concerned.
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