Use the excerpt to answer the question.
“[The rich] consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their
natural selfishness and rapacity . . . they divide with the poor the
produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to
make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which
would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal
portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it,
without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford
means to the multiplication of the species.”
What economic system does the evidence support?
(1 point)
laissez-faire capitalism
utopian socialism
mercantilism
communism