Original sentence: " (Life inc." Rushkoff further argues that, "While celebrated today by corporate libertarians as philosophical justification for free-trade policies, the book was meant as an attack on the scale and effects of chartered monopoly.As author Douglas Rushkoff points out, "Smith assumes people would be biased against international trade, naturally preferring the security offered by sourcing goods locally-and that his readers would agree with him on this point.By arguing - now famously - that "self-interest" might promote a more just society, he was speaking in the context of an economy already heavily tilted against individual human agency.Like the founders of America, who would've differed on almost everything else but this, Smith saw economics as characterized by small, scaled, local economies working in interaction with one another and guided by the enlightened self-interest of individuals.This was not a reaction to "leftist" regulations on corporate power, but against the unfair practices of early transnational corporations, which were operating on a level completely removed from the real affairs of people and the proper stewardship of resources