Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 291

Others are very complicated. The masses are frequently despoiled without knowing it. They may even imagine that they owe all to spoliation--not only what is left to them, but what is taken from them, and what is lost in the process. Nay more, I affirm that, in course of time, and owing to the ingenious mechanism to which they become accustomed, many men become spoliators without knowing that they are so, or desiring to be so. Monopolies of this kind are engendered by artifice and nourished by error. They disappear only with advancing enlightenment.

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