Malthusian philosophy was
A) a philosophy that people are at their best when placed under tremendous stress. This is when they outperform what they believe they are capable of.
B) a prediction of the continued suffering of the human race based upon our own behavior and interactions, exacerbated by the industrial revolution.
C) a theory that people will always produce enough food to sustain themselves, and population will adjust based upon that criteria through disease and other illnesses.
D) the view that the production and consumption of wealth is a self-correcting process in which purposeful state intervention does more harm than good.
E) a theory that wages will always return to the level needed for bare subsistence of the workers.
B
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