If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.
People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.