"Now, it is said, why attack the landlord alone; why not go for the capitalist? The capitalist, as a capitalist, is doing nobody any harm. What harm is done by the capitalist is as a monopolist. It is the monopoly that you want to destroy. Now, we find when a person has a great sum of money, this power is, in the phrase of the Socialists, used in exploiting labour. Where does this power come from?

Suppose I take a million pounds and go into a country where people can earn for themselves £1 a day and put up my big factory. Can I get anybody to work for less than £1 a day? No indeed. It is because people are impoverished that they are forced to compete with each other for starvation wages. Suppose every family had, as it well might have, its own house and garden, enough to live on, would you find people working for a few shillings a week? You can see where the pressure comes from. One millstone cannot grind. It requires two, the nether millstone as well as the upper millstone."

~ Henry George