يتواطأ أصحاب العمل دائماً وفي كل مكان على نحو ضمني لكنه دائم ومتّسق، على ألا يرفعوا أجور العمال.

“Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.”Adam Smith — An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner (1843)