Adam Smith Satire

Adam Smith wrote in Theory of Moral Sentiments about the unnecessary need for political revolutions in order to remedy the problems of the government. He explained that the spirit of the system tended to take the current public spirit, or opinion, and transform it into an animated fanaticism. The current rulers of the country fell short of the reformation they originally planned announced that the government needs restructuring, and the constitution needed rewriting; even though the public was generally happy with the current state of the government. In simpler terms, Adams Smith believed the government set in place is the way the country should be lead forever with a few minor changes along the way. Although Smith made an excellent point that
The Encyclopédie, put together by Diderot, defined privilege as “Birth has its privileges. There is no dignity that does not have its [privileges]; each has the privilege of its type and nature.” In simpler terms, each person is born into their privilege and should accept it. Although this definition proposes that each class gets their own special privilege that makes everyone happy, this is entirely false. The commoners felt as though they had no privilege paying every tax, while the nobles told the commoners that they were exempt because their ancestors defended the glory of France many wars ago. Smith’s proposition that a true patriot should sought reform by respecting the current state of the country and working to make small changes that won’t lead to violence is impossible in this case. Smith’s proposition would only work to solve very simple problems within a country. The problem with France is that under a system of privilege, the only way to reform the problems it caused is by rewriting and restructuring the way the government itself is run. The Cahiers de Doléances came to be as a result of the complaints by the commoners at the current system. Smith would have agreed with this system of collecting public opinion, because it follows his writings when he
However, what Smith fails to realize is that as time passes certain laws become unfit for how society works. French aristocracy could not participate in mercantilism or business owning, because it was deemed unfit for a noble, even though these two enterprises helped to expand the French economy. In fact to buy a venal office, a person sold his business to the king. The Third Estate simply asked for a set amount of meetings of the Estates General, a more fair voting system, and a more equally distributed tax system to lessen their burden. The nobility wanted to equalize their power more so with the king. The king could have taken Smith’s advice to offer small changes to require taxes for all and created a parliament similar to Great Britain, but chose not to. As a result, the only solution for France was a political revolution to remove government ruled by a king and