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UNDER this title, P.E.P. (Political and Economic Planning) issues a broadsheet, No. 63, which should interest everyone, because all the world is a consumer and comparatively few are producers or distributors. We all think that we suffer, at times, from the greed or petty dishonesty of those who stand on the other side of the counter, yet for the most part we grin and bear it, taking little thought of the methods that might be used to give us value for our money. Fundamentally, the problem is the one that is penetrating ever more deeply into the social conscience, namely, how the proceeds of useful human labour should be apportioned equitably among producers, distributors and consumers. Some are convinced that the principle now ruling is that of the jungle—sweets to the sweet and the hindmost to’ the devil—and that pending the time when men are educated morally to the same degree as some are now educated intellectually, the only solution is the total elimination of ‘profit’ in the Marxian sense, or drastic regulation of profits, as now practised in certain Continental countries.
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The Outlook for Consumers. Nature 136, 1019–1020 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361019c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1361019c0