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Article #277Re: Do we need 12 million to pick lettuce?
From: Michael Scheltgen
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:31
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:31
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Just Cocky wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:59:32 -0400, Just Cocky <just@cocky.com> wrote: > >>On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:32:14 -0500, Robert Kolker >><nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote: >> >>>Just Cocky wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Socialism. They are getting rid of it, though. >>> >>>Uganda has more people than Switzerland. Why isn't Uganda more wealthy >>>than Switzerland? >>> >>>If you invoke the nature of the societies involved then you have >>>contradicted your position that wealth is simply the product of a head >>>count. >>> >> >>Head count is a necessary but not sufficient condition for increased >>wealth production. I'd expect this to be a no brainer but apparently >>it isn't. >> > > > Let me clarify: all other things being equal, the more people a > country has, the more wealth is created in it. > > How's that? Absolutely. Economies of scale come into play for one.
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