We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.
You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.
The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
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