Wish I'd said that - December 18, 2019

“‘The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen, are altogether without foundation. So far is it from being necessary, either to tax them, or to restrict their numbers, that they can never be multiplied so as to hurt the public, though they may so as to hurt one another.’”

Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, quoted in H.B. Action The Morals of Markets and Related Essays.