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“Enough to Buy Back the Product” 139employers, big and little, by investors, grocers, butchers, owners ofsmall drug stores, and gasoline stations—by everybody, in short, whocontributes toward making the product.As to the prices, wages, and profits that should determine the distributionof that product, the best prices are not the highest prices,but the prices that encourage the largest volume of production andthe largest volume of sales. The best wage rates for labor are not thehighest wage rates, but the wage rates that permit full production, fullemployment, and the largest sustained payrolls. The best profits, fromthe standpoint not only of industry but of labor, are not the lowestprofits, but the profits that encourage most people to becomeemployers or to provide more employment than before.If we try to run the economy for the benefit of a single group orclass, we shall injure or destroy all groups, including the members ofthe very class for whose benefit we have been trying to run it. Wemust run the economy for everybody.