Hugh Nibley
"Such an economic order in which everyone was busy trafficking and getting rich was not, according to 4 Nephi, a free society. It was only under the old system, he tells us, that 'they had all things common among them; therefore there were not rich and poor, bond and free, but they were all made free, and partakers of the heavenly gift' (4 Nephi 1:3)." (An Approach to the Book of Mormon, p. 398)