Julian Simon

"The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or 2, all nations & most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards.
I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think & say that the conditions of life are getting worse.”
~Julian Simon~ (Author of The Ultimate Resource)
 In Simon's view, the key factor in natural and world economic growth is our capacity for the creation of new ideas and contributions to knowledge. The more people alive who can be trained to help solve the problems that confront us, the faster we can remove obstacles, and the greater the economic inheritance we shall bequeath to our descendants. In conjunction with the size of the educated population, the key constraint on human progress is the nature of the economic-political system: talented people need economic freedom and security to bring their talents to fruition.
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