Smith did not write : 'Hum]an has almost constant occasion for the pants of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to give him the pants he requires of them' - he wrote 'Hum]an has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them' By reducing the possible spheres of human co-operation to nothing but giving and receiving commodities you have just reinforced the false dichotomy...