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# Funds for Maintaining Productive Labour
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## Definition
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The capital and revenue sources that employ productive hands whose labour
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adds value to materials. These funds are much greater in rich countries and
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bear a much greater proportion to those likely to be employed in maintaining
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idleness, determining the general character of inhabitants as industrious or
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idle.
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## Source Chapter
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Book II, Chapter 3
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## Context
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Smith argues that the proportion between these funds and those for maintaining
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unproductive hands determines whether a country tends toward industry or
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idleness, with rich countries having larger proportions of productive labour.
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## Economic Domain
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Production
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