Chapter 4
"O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no, not the taking off of the ground." Yet he takes it anyway, the classic critique of capitalist instinct.
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From Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Crusoe's address to the money he finds aboard the wreck is the novel's most quoted economic meditation, often cited by Marx and others on use value versus exchange value.
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