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From: tpkq@charm.UUCP (Timothy Kerwin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Starvation and population (moved from net.religion)
Message-ID: <233@charm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jan-84 20:31:55 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 25 20:31:55 1984
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Yes, children can quickly produce more wealth than it takes to keep
them alive.  This is also true of adults, despite the low level of
technology in the "Third World."  The problem is that the bulk of
this surplus wealth ends up in the pockets of capitalists in the "First World."

Indeed, the fact that a person can produce more than is necessary to keep him
alive is what makes the "Third World" so interesting to capitalists,
why they are so concerned with rescuing these countries from the "communist
menace."