Source: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 9 (p. 111)
“Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies:
Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more
In every branch becomes the sale of money.”
Smith (Glasgow: Wilson, 1888) p. 26
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