In The Wealth of Nations, the general gist is that it is the labor of the people that creates the wealth of the State.
So this gets interpreted by the oligarchs as: Humans only have value if they are able to provide labor we can exploit. Once they can no longer provide labor, they have no value.
That’s how it is interpreted by pretty much everyone. Those who do not provide value to the society should not expect to get any value from the society.
In The Wealth of Nations, the general gist is that it is the labor of the people that creates the wealth of the State.
So this gets interpreted by the oligarchs as: Humans only have value if they are able to provide labor we can exploit. Once they can no longer provide labor, they have no value.
That’s how it is interpreted by pretty much everyone. Those who do not provide value to the society should not expect to get any value from the society.