Malthus' Utterly Dismal Theorem (1955)
If the only check to population is misery, the result of any improvement is ultimately to enable a larger population than before to live in misery, so that resource-improvement actually increases the sum of misery.
"The Malthusian Model as a General System," Social and Economic Studies, September, 1955; Collected Works, Vol. I, p. 455.
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