We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
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.
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.
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.
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.
