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Not so surpising
Makes the original invisible hand man sound like kind of a modern liberal, doesn't it?
The more you read about and of Adam Smith, the less surprising this will seem. He was curiously ahead of his time, and it's no accident that the civilization we live in today (and rail so ominously about losing) is known as "liberal democracy" even though economically it's based on Smith's free market. Smith was a pretty bright guy who saw a lot farther than any of his disciplines, who over time have lost their way and twisted his essentially pro-human message into unrecognizable orthodoxies designed to squelch the human spirit.
Come to think of it, kinda like Jesus.