It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.
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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be.
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in his farewell address.
Only little people pay taxes.
Only little people pay taxes.
