... businessmen decreased their own workload in favour of having slaves. However this practise grew less popular as those who had suffered less successful businesses or had worked in employment strove to be equally as self sufficient as their superiors but at their own hand. This was stimulated ... self-satisfying motive for this thirst for over achieving he insisted that profits should be reinvested, and not lavishly spent on luxuries; (writing of his own home) " our table was plain and simple, our furniture was of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (n...

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