SOCB42H3 Study Guide - Jewish Question, Cultural Policy, Free Market
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The idea system for smith was the ancient system! He believes that rich people should pay for their own education. Problems of dol in commercial society: make you stupid: pg. 987 laziness of mind, dumb, a simplified job also simplifies your mind m, encourages a decline in public spirit. Spend all day doing the same thing and you are concerned with one thing. Don"t have a time to think about what is around you: make you into a coward, makes you weak. You spend 8 hours a day to do one thing and you don"t have the energy to do anything else. You would only be strong at one thing. Smith though that the best way to do this is to have government provided education for common people. Commercial societies are free society: people are free to do whatever they want, they need to be courageous. Therefore smith says: freedom requires people need to be courageous.
