Kevin Marks, whom I had not read before, cites Jerome K Jerome (author of Three Men in a Boat) on economics:
What a wonderful piece of Socialism modern civilisation has become! – not the Socialism of the so-called Socialists — a system modelled apparently upon the methods of the convict prison – a system under which each miserable sinner is to be compelled to labour, like a beast of burden, for no personal benefit to himself, but only for the good of the community – a world where there are to be no men, but only numbers – where there is to be no ambition and no hope and no fear, — but the Socialism of free men, working side by side in the common workshop, each one for the wage to which his skill and energy entitle him; the Socialism of responsible, thinking individuals, not of State-directed automata. . . .