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“Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome." -- Bill Gates

According to the U.S. economist Thomas Sowell, "Most working Americans, who were initially in the bottom 20% of income-earners, rise out of that bottom 20%. More of them end up in the top 20% than remain in the bottom 20%."

Compared to 1915, the average American in 2015 was healthier, better educated, working less while in a safer environment, and making more money yet spending less on everyday goods.

The European Union's opposition to genetically modified foods is unscientific. GMOs used elsewhere in the world have reduced pesticide use by 36.9 percent, while increasing yields by 21.6 percent.

The Homo sapiens has been on this earth for 200,000 years. For 99.9 percent of that time, we lived in ignorance, poverty and misery. Thanks to industrialization and trade, the world has improved miraculously.

The United Kingdom has more than tripled its forest area since 1919. The UK will soon reach forest levels equal to those registered in the Domesday Book, almost a thousand years ago.

A new survey has unveiled that, both men and women are equally pleased with their employment situations and the earnings gap can largely be explained by women being more likely on average to choose part-time work.

Over the last hundred years, deaths from climate-related events fell from 500,000 to 20,000 per year despite a 300 percent increase in world population. https://buff.ly/2OCa5SQ

The Homo sapiens has been on this earth for 200,000 years. For 99.9 percent of that time, we lived in ignorance, poverty and misery. Thanks to industrialization and trade, the world has improved miraculously.

More evidence for the evils of private property and trade -- you know, capitalism.