“Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales.”

— Frederik Pohl, book The Space Merchants

Source: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 9 (p. 111)

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American science fiction writer and editor 1919–2013

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