Use the excerpt to answer the question.
“[The rich] consume little more than the poor, and in
spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity . . . they
divide with the poor the produce of all their
improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to
make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of
life, which would have been made, had the earth been
divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants,
and thus without intending it, without knowing it,
advance the interest of the society, and afford means to
the multiplication of the species.”
What economic system does the evidence support?
(1 point)
utopian socialism
communism
laissez-faire capitalism
mercantilism