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"In every civilization of the past, bar none, if you took the most that it was posslble to produce and divided it among all who were alive to share it, the answer was always a lousy standard of living. . . . [But] if we produced all that we could and divided it among the people who are here to share it, we would come out with a very good standard of living for the first time in all history. That's the most important material thing that's happened to the human race since the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel."