Excerpt from Capital: A Popular Discussion of Savings, Profits and the Rights of Property Ownership From a New Viewpoint, The Fundamentals of Economic Science in the English of Every Day UseThere are several big corporations in this country that have thrown away millions of dollars worth of machinery to make way for the introduction of bet ter and more effective equipment. The managements of these companies keep them up to date and thus so hold down the operating costs that they are able to provide continuous employment for their workmen and dividends for their stockholders.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.