Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 218

The foreign workman, better and more favourably situated than the home workman for the production of certain commodities, is, with reference to the latter, a veritable _economic machine,_ crushing him by competition. In like manner, machinery, which executes a piece of work at a lower price than a certain number of men could do by manual labour, is, in relation to these manual labourers, a veritable _foreign competitor_, who paralyzes them by his rivalry.

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