If Adam Smith were to see the movie "Sugar Cane Alley", I don't think he'd like it. I think he would say that it was a good example of what happens when there is a monopoly in control. He would also look at the cane worker's labor value, since he thought that labor was a source of value, not nature. An example of that from the movie is when they are in the field and …
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…has worked in the past, but in situations like for the cane workers, I don't think that this will work. They have no other options than to go to work in the fields. They are always indebted to the store and they can't ever get ahead, let alone not go to work. Keynes thought that this would work because it would stop all profiting for the time being. That would make the wage laborers heard.