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Explore how individuals prioritize self-interest in economic decisions, influencing interactions among merchants, landlords, and workers. Learn how this dynamic shapes public interests and fosters conviction in economic relationships.
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It is by this superior knowledge of their [merchants] own interest that they have frequently imposed upon his generosity, and persuaded him [landlords] to give up both his own interest and that of the public [workers], from a very simple but honest conviction, that their interest, and not his, was the interest of the public.