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The problem of existence - Fortunately I have no children

K: Yes. Overpopulation. Fortunately I have no children. What am I to do about it, what are you to do about overpopulation? You go to India, which I do every winter, except last year, and you see there are 570 million people, crawling. For one job there are about 5,000 people - you understand? - people sleeping in the streets. Tremendous population. China is the same, go to the East, it is burdened, and in Europe too. So what are we to do? You and I, not somebody else - what are we to do about it? Join the Family Planning Board? Advocate which is the best contraceptive and so on? Is that your major problem? Come on, sirs, is this what you want to discuss, talk over together, how to prevent...

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