that's exactly the kind of people that adam smith thought should serve as as political leaders. they have no he as said about the landed aristocracy, england, they have no interest of their own. their money comes to them from rents and tenants without exertion. they don't have to do anything. money just flows in and that gives them the ability to be disinterested. and that's a term that george washington used all the time, was what he meant by virtue we use the term non to mean as a synonym for uninterested and. we've changed the meaning of the word. but in the 18 century there was only one meaning to that word. it meant impartial standing above interests and washington that and he works at it. the southern planters slaveholding planters came as close as anyone in our society to emulating the english. that is to say, they didn't have to work either. they didn't have to exert themselves, their money, their cotton growing money came without their exertion, so to speak. not not quite up what the english aristocracy had, but that gave them assurance that they were the true heirs of