“But I am starving,” insists the workingman, “we are all starving. Why is there no work?”
“The reason there is no work is ‘overproduction.’ The market is clogged with products, you must understand, and we can’t sell them. What is your trade?”
“I work in a shoe-factory.”
“But the shoe market is already glutted—there are twice as many shoes as there is any use for.”
“Twice as many shoes! But my feet are on the ground!”
“Well, we can’t help that, my good man; that’s because you have no money to buy them with.”
“And my friend here,” goes on the workingman—“he is a tailor, and he is naked because there are too many coats on the market?”
“Exactly.”
“And the baker here is starving because we are both too poor to buy his bread?”
“Exactly.”