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X. De los salarios y el beneficio en las diferentes ocupaciones del trabajo y del capital

debe depositarse en quienes los desempeñan; and fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them. -> y quinto, la probabilidad o improbabilidad de éxito en ellos. (Self-correction to apply clean professional translation without markdown errors) Las cinco circunstancias siguientes son las principales que, hasta donde he podido observar, compensan una pequeña ganancia pecuniaria en algunos empleos y contrarrestan una grande en otros: primero, lo agradable o desagradable de los empleos mismos; segundo, la facilidad y el bajo costo, o la dificultad y el gasto de aprenderlos; tercero, la constancia o inconstancia del empleo en ellos; cuarto, la pequeña o gran confianza que debe depositarse en quienes los ejercen; y quinto, la probabilidad o improbabilidad de éxito en ellos.

First, The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. * Thus in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver. His work is much easier. * A journeyman weaver earns less than a journeyman smith. His work is not always easier, but it is much cleanlier. * A journeyman blacksmith, though an artificer, seldom earns so much in twelve hours as a collier, who is only a labourer, does in eight. His work is not quite so dirty, is less dangerous, and is carried on in daylight, and above ground. Honour makes a great part of the reward of all honourable professions. In point of pecuniary gain, all things considered, they are generally under-recompensed, as I shall endeavour to show

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