The Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus (1798) utilized the idea of unavoidable losses to clarify low expectations for everyday comforts. Human populace, he contended, would in general increment mathematically, surpassing the creation of food. which expanded numerically. The power of a quickly developing populace against a restricted measure of land implied unavoidable losses to work. The outcome, he guaranteed, was constantly low wages, which forestalled the way of life for the majority of the populace from transcending the means level,[57][non-essential source needed] Economist Julian Lincoln Simon has scrutinized Malthus' conclusions.[58]