Wurwand generously attributes much of her success to fellow women entrepreneurs who scrapedtogether what little they had to open their own salons selling her products, often to make better lives for their children.
For as long as that were true, the capitalist enclaves could grow without wages rising: they only had to offer workers a little more than could be scrapedtogether in the vast economic hinterland.
According to various sources, when Alexander was leading his army across Gedrosia, and many were perishing through thirst and exposure, some soldiers brought Alexander a helmetful of water they had scrapedtogether with great effort from a muddy hole.