“The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.” MindImportantMatterHandsGrowthBenefitsMouthsIncreaseSizePopulationUseful Knowledge Book:The Ultimate Resource 2 Source: The Ultimate Resource 2
“However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.” MayHomeNeededBenefitsWestPopulationForestsParksNational ParksAffording Author:Benton MacKaye
“Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.” PeopleWorldNeedsShouldLongIdeasBeautifulSufferingOrderTermDiseaseBenefitsSpeciesPopulationCancerCirclesHorribleCompareLong TermOur SocietyDreadConsumptionViciousHorrible ThingsWorld PopulationVicious Circles Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.” FirstsMaySafeBenefitsSmartAgingPopulationLionsCognitiveMushroomsFungiAging Population Author:Paul Stamets
“The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies that have almost annihilated the farming population have greatly benefited the population of food consumers. But more and more consumers are now becoming aware that our supposed abundance of cheap and healthful food is to a considerable extent illusory.” PeopleHas BeensStatesPainPracticePolicyBecomingBenefitsEnvironmentalAffairPopulationConsumersAbundanceConvinceSustainabilityFarmingIllusoryConvince Us Author:Wendell Berry
“But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population. So if you were ever going to have an election, then the Shia would take over.” PeopleIfsMomentsBenefitsPercentDecidedElectionPopulationSaddamShia Author:Patrick Cockburn
“There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.” MadeSchoolSocialEffortSecurityOfficeBenefitsMajorsPopulationPostsSocial SecurityPublic SchoolSurrealPost OfficePostal Service Author:Noam Chomsky
“[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.” WholeGovernmentCitizensMembersBenefitsPopulationChosenCorporationsDevotedCommitteesAutonomous Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.” GivingHas BeensGovernmentAmericaPaySpecialSecurityTaughtTheoryReturnTaxesBenefitsPrivilegePopulationIncomeSplitsIncome TaxDistributors Author:John Stossel
“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.” WorldKindChildrenProblemGrowthWealthGoneEconomicHugeAmountBenefitsSpringProgramManagementInternationalPopulationBlowCorruptionReformConcentrationFundMarvelousEgyptWagesMonetaryPostersArab SpringImfWorld BankConcentration Of Wealth Author:Noam Chomsky
“It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.” PeopleBelieveBenefitsLowsPopulationIncomeCertaintyWealthySchemesHandfulPyramidsHispanicLow IncomePyramid SchemesHerbalife Author:Bill Ackman
“Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards of health and education have fallen. And conditions in the rural areas are worse off than they have ever been. So, you cannot equate the so-called open-market economy adopted by the SLORC with any real development that benefits people.” PeopleHas BeensRealEconomyConditionsDevelopmentBenefitsStandardsAreasMajorityPopulationFallenAdoptedInflationDroppingMarket EconomyRural AreasHealth And Education Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for us free. But the local population should benefit rightfully. The locals should benefit just a little more than the companies.” ShouldLittlesCompanyReturnBenefitsPopulationLocalsInvestors Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.” PeopleHas BeensStudyBenefitsPopulationTherapyFatigueSyndromesMassageChronic Fatigue Author:Andrew Weil
“Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.” SuccessfulEnvironmentProduceBenefitsSurvivalPopulationControlledMammals Author:David Attenborough
“Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.” PeopleHomeTodayWealthPayMillionsAmountSixBenefitsHundredPaidWorkersBottomAveragePopulationBillionsNineEmployeeContrastSixtyFoundersTypicalCeoWagesMotorGeneral Motors Book:Ill Fares the Land Source: Ill Fares the Land