
Ep 17: Ch 9, Part 2: "Optimism"
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The Play Pump Is a Bad Idea
Malthus had accurately foretold the one phenomenon, but had missed the other altogether. He and many of his contemporaries were misled into believing that they had covered an objective asymmetry between what he called the power of population and the power of production. They all thought they were making sober predictions based on the best knowledge available to them. In reality, they were all allowing themselves to be misled by the ineluctable fact of the human condition - we don't yet know what we have not yet discovered. So if you yourself are not experiencing the problem, and you try and solve someone else's problem without consulting them, so probably the best of the bad bunch is to simply give them money
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