Original sentence: And therefore in any civilized society the government is going to have to take some measures to prevent division of labor from proceeding to its limits.But not many people get to the point hundreds of pages later, where he says that division of labor will destroy human beings and turn people into creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to be.Everybody reads the first paragraph of The Wealth of Nations where he talks about how wonderful the division of labor is.He bitterly condemned the British experiments they were carrying out which were devastating India.He did give an argument for markets, but the argument was that under conditions of perfect liberty, markets will lead to perfect equality.He gave a devastating critique of what we would call North-South policies.He was talking about England and India.It goes on and on.Noam Chomsky has talked about the "Adam Smith Problem" as, "He's pre-capitalist, a figure of the Enlightenment.People read snippets of Adam Smith, the few phrases they teach in school.That's the argument for them, because he thought that equality of condition (not just opportunity) is what you should be aiming at.What we would call capitalism he despised