Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 144 of Steven Landsburg’s wonderful 1997 book, Fair Play:

The engine of prosperity is technological progress – not just feats of engineering but also the design of new insurance contracts, better legal systems, and improved patterns of crop rotation. And the engine of technological progress is people. Ideas come from people. The more people, the more ideas. The more ideas, the more we prosper.

DBx: Yes. It follows that opponents of trade and immigration are opponents of prosperity, for these people are proponents of reducing their and their fellow citizens’ access to the ultimate resource – human ingenuity and its fruits.