Thursday, May 14, 2015

Unintended consequences..........................

"To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface."
-Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)

Ed. Note:  While we have had some fun at Malthus's expense over his inability to conceive that us humans could increase food production at exponential, instead of arithmetical,  rates, he still was a pretty smart guy who said some interesting things.

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