The profit of the one is the profit of the other. - Frédéric Bastiat

Para empezar, la palabra universal oculta un sofisma grosero. Hay en Francia treinta seis millones de habitantes. Para que el derecho de sufragio fuera universal, tendría que serle reconocido a treinta y seis millones de electores. En el sistema más amplio, no se le reconoce sino a nueve millones. Luego, quedan excluidas tres de cada cuatro personas, y lo que es más importante, quien excluye a los otros es la cuarta persona. ¿Sobre qué principio se funda tal exclusión?

There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that many falsely derive all justice from law. It is sufficient, then, for the law to order and sanction plunder, that it may appear to many consciences just and sacred. Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institutions, it is said directly — “You are a dangerous experimenter, a utopian, a theorist, a despiser of the laws; you would shake the basis upon which society rests.

Money only appears for the sake of facilitating the arrangements between the parties.