This being the case, every labor-saving invention, whether it be a steam plow, a telegraph, an improved process of smelting ores, a perfecting printing press, or a sewing machine, has a tendency to increase rent.
Henry George
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- Progress and Poverty (1879), Memorial Edition (1898); Exact wording and attribution checked. Historical political-economic argument that unequal land ownership prevents the benefits of invention from being shared.
- Progress and Poverty (1879), Memorial Edition (1898)
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