Smith goes on to describe how the productive powers of labor employed by the owner of a capital allow laborers to reproduce with a profit the value of their maintainance, over and above their own consumption, which then allows for an additional set of hands to be employed. <ref>Smith, 'Wealth of Nations'', Book II, Chapter 3, Paragraph 22.</ref> | Smith goes on to describe how the productive powers of labor employed by the owner of a capital allow laborers to reproduce with a profit the value of their maintainance, over and above their own consumption, which then allows for an additional set of hands to be employed. <ref>Smith, 'Wealth of Nations'', Book II, Chapter 3, Paragraph 22.</ref> |