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    Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

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The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. read more

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