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# Menial Servants

## Definition

Domestic workers employed by landlords, annuitants, or monied men who have revenue beyond what they judge sufficient to maintain their own family, with increases in their surplus revenue naturally leading to increases in the number of such servants.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 8

## Context

Used as an example of how increased revenue for those who live by income rather than labour creates additional demand for wage-labourers.

## Economic Domain

Consumption

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